Dead Quotes - page 3

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. (Oriana Fallaci)
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man. View quote
Henri Michaux
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. View quote
Washington Irving
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. View quote
Henry Miller
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. View quote
William Gibson
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. View quote
Brian Clough
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. View quote
Omar Bradley
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway. View quote
Steve Biko
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. (Og Mandino)
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. View quote
William Allingham
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Unbeing dead isn't being alive. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older. View quote
Mickey Spillane
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. View quote
A. E. Housman
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. View quote
Ray Bradbury
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. View quote
Emily Dickinson
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