Dead Quotes - page 4

We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content. (Eduardo Galeano)

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

V. S. Naipaul

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Jim Hightower

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed. (John Galsworthy)

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Jean Cocteau

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let us show our friendship for a man when he is living and not after he is dead.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

LOVE He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

The great god Pan is dead.

Plutarch

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

Ned Vizzini

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

Robert Falcon Scott

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead.

John Updike

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. (Evelyn Waugh)

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

John Burdett

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Thomas Paine

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Vivien Leigh

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