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“But here's first what I see for Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). You're going to have people raised from the dead watching this network. You're going to have people raised from the dead watching TBN. Programs -- just plain programs -- programs that haven't done much when it comes to supernatural manifestations -- teaching programs!”
Benny Hinn (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb! Your guns have spoken and they are dust. But the shrouded Living, whose hearts were numb, have felt the beat of a wakening drum Within them sounding — the Dead men’s tongue — Calling: "Smite off the ancient rust!" Have beheld "Resurrexit," the word of the Dead, Written-in-red.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ay, gather your petals and take them back To the dead heart under the dew; And crown it again with the red love bloom, For the dead are always true. But go not "back to the sediment" In the slime of the moaning sea, For a better world belongs to you, And a better friend to me.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only in us do the dead live. Water flows downhill through us. The sun cools in our bones. We are joined with all living in one singing web of energy. In us live the dead who made us. In us live the children unborn. Breathing each other’s air, drinking each other’s water, eating each other’s flesh, we grow like a tree from the earth." (p322)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No known human group . . . simply throw[s] out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.”
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't believe it can end. Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Finally, as if all of that isn’t bad enough, the dead are rising. This latter item, Alexei thinks, is deeply unfair. He’s a sergeant in Spetsgruppa “V”—a professional, in other words—and when he kills someone professionally he expects them to stay dead. These walking abominations are an insult to his competence.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!”
Moms Mabley (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The swallow leaves her nest, The soul my weary breast; But therefore let the rain On my grave Fall pure; for why complain? Since both will come again O’er the wave.The wind dead leaves and snow Doth hurry to and fro; And, once, a day shall break O’er the wave, When a storm of ghosts shall shake The dead, until they wake In the grave.”
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song" (1825), as anthologised by R. H. Stoddard in Melodies and Madrigals (1866), pp. 168–9
“Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they.”
John Osborne (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At sea on a ship in a thunderstorm on the very night the Christ was born a sailor heard from overhead a mighty voice cry "Pan is Dead!" So follow Christ as best you can Pan is dead — Long live Pan!”
Mike Scott (Scottish musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now Im dead, now Im dead, and you're all Going on to meet your reward. Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? You might have never heard, but God's comic.”
Elvis Costello (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the people sick and dead on the ships, and the ones sick and dead on this soil. What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I watched the living soldiers pass by the dead at the roadside without a glance, and the dead scarcely looked human. They resembled wax mannequins thrown from a show window, lying about in grotesque, inhuman postures, arms pointing toward the sky, legs frozen as though they were running. Their faces were bloodless, waxy white.”
Larry LeSueur (1909–2003) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twelve Months That Changed the World (Google Books link), A.A. Knopf, 1943.
“Nietzsche … combines, in effect, Christ’s harsh sayings: ‘let the dead bury their dead’ and ‘narrow is the way which leadeth unto life’.”
John Carroll (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You want a motive, William? I’ve got a motive. Vengeance may not be a pretty word, but it’s what’s expected of us.” “Right!” said Sverre. “We owe it to all those millions of dead people to make more millions of dead people. Be careful how you rewrite strategic doctrine, General, or you’ll come out of this war without a single medal.”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you have any papers for Will Barrent?” “None,” the lawyer said. “His case is in different hands. I’m afraid it might not be completely processed until after the Games are over.” “But I’ll probably be dead then,” Barrent said. “That, I can assure you, won’t stop the papers from being properly served,” the fat lawyer said proudly. “Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But now she was fifty-seven, and suddenly ancient. Soon she would be dead. Dead. You can’t get any more ancient than that.”
John Varley (1947–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People get the wrong idea about me, they think I'm depressed or something - I'm not depressed. I don't wish that I was dead, I wish... that you were all dead.”
Frankie Boyle (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s often a good idea to adopt the practices and beliefs of the people around you. For one thing, the people around you aren’t dead. If you do what they do – eat what they eat; avoid the dark alleys they avoid – you might continue not being dead as well.”
Steve Stewart-Williams (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. […] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Column, January 2, 2009, "Moral clarity in Gaza" at jewishworldreview.com.
“No matter the lie, even if I was on my own, I'd have to play it. I can hear my dad saying: 'Play the ball as it lies.' Because of the way I was taught, I would feel awful about it. I don't know if that makes me dead honest or dead stupid.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alex Salmond: The new king of Scotland, (9 August 2008)
“Someone once told me that archaeologists are anthropologists who don’t like live people. They dig up dead ones because dead ones can’t talk back. That’s not quite true. But I think live people are too fast for most archaeologists. We’re a slow-moving lot. We look at a change in pottery technology that took a hundred years and say that’s pretty quick. We’re used to taking our time.”
Pat Murphy (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keynes is dead; dynamic programming; Keynes is still dead. That’s the way Stanford graduate economics students recently summed up what they had learned in their core graduate macroeconomics course.”
David Colander (1947–2023) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Colander, "The Keynesian Method, Complexity, and the Training of Economists" (2009)
“Is he dead?” Irravel asked. “Depends what you mean by dead.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is a torch, then ashes soon, May and June, then dead December, Dead December, then again June. Who shall end my dream's confusion? Life is a loom, weaving illusion.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like wind," he said. "A day when there is no wind seems to me dead. A windy day wakes me up." He gave a conscious laugh. "On a calm day I fall into day dreams. No doubt you know my reputation, Miss West. If I cut you dead the next time we meet don't put it down to bad manners. Please understand that it is only abstraction and forgive me—and speak to me.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wasn’t sure if we were still engaged.” “After everything we’ve been through? After true love conquered all?” Emily shook her head. “Being dead had done nothing to alleviate your obtuseness, Mr. Stanton.” “Being dead allowed me to learn the heart’s deepest secret,” he said. “That sometimes love—even true love—isn’t enough.” ”But it’s a start,” Emily said.”
M. K. Hobson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jason Dorrant found it hard to believe that Alicia Bartlett was dead. Not only dead but murdered. Attacked and hit hard enough to kill her. He could not imagine anyone bad enough, evil enough, to do something like that. Especially to a nice little kid like Alicia.”
Robert Cormier (1925–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.”
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
“I sought her in the grayness and she wasn’t there, she was dead and she wasn’t there, she wouldn’t be there ever again and I could never find comfort in her again. Ellen, beloved, you are dead and your voice is in my mind and only in my mind.”
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 233)
“Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.”
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask — perhaps more than once — where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”
Richard Adams (1920–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead.”
Brent Weeks (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the mysteries of the world seem normal after dark. If imagination shows dead thumbs aching for a ride, those dead folk only prove the hot and spermy goodness of life.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The living are those who are a shame. Don't you think so? The dead do not give war to anyone; but what is alive, they do not find how to mortify the lives of others. If they even kill each other to end the hearts of others. With that I tell you everything. On the other hand, we must not hate the dead. They are the great thing. Are good. The best beings on earth.”
Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been taking these photographs as I am dead, and then I look back at these photographs to re-experience what it was like, as someone who experienced themselves as a dead person. And they’re the same. It’s very much the same experience, just one is visual and one is more verbal. Both are ways to get through a very difficult experience, and they’re also ways to remember it.”
Esmé Weijun Wang first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On using various mediums to highlight an experience in “Schizophrenia Terrifies: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang” in The Paris Review (2019 Feb 4)
“What's legacy code? That's dead programmers stuff, not only there are no comment in it, you can't ask people because they are dead. It written in languages that nobody understand, there is no specification and yet it works beautifully!”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all were dead. All of us were convinced that we were on our way to the fishes. Funny that even among the dead these fine distinctions of rank and class do not cease to exist. I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery, particularly in the cemeteries of Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.”
B. Traven (1882–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My grandfather is dead," Abel said. "You must bury him."... "My grandfather is dead," Abel repeated. His voice was low and even. There was no emotion, nothing.”
N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nanna was the first dead person I ever saw. Her hair was blue against the pillow. And when me hand bumped her cheek she was cold and heavy and a kind of spark went through me, like a terrible familiar feeling. And I understood it then. She was meat. That's what dead things are.”
Tim Winton (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No point standing alone No point wondering why No point getting it if you don't level it Gotta look 'em dead in the eye No point sitting at home Better just believe you can fly No point singing it if you're not ringing it Gotta look 'em dead in the eye”
Example (musician) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dead in the Eye" (song, 2022), with P Money and Whiney
“The first station of trust in God is that servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.”
Sahl al-Tustari (818–896) said by 896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some give their dead to earth, and some to fire, And some to beasts that roam the deserts dire; But since the dead do not return to rail, For aught I care, my guts may string a lyre!”
L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dead cat, it seemed, lay on the counter, but as he looked, it stirred to life and he realized that it had merely been lying, after the the habit of cats, in such a position that it looked dead. The cat looked at him with a kind of cold effrontery, as the duchess at the chambermaid. Ish felt uncomfortable, and had to remind himself that this was the way cats had always behaved.”
George R. Stewart (1895–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you come into a place, it is really important to see people who are achieving things,” Professor Osier said. “If you come into a place where people are dead wood, however brilliant you may be, you are going to become dead wood yourself.”
Faith Osier (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I can’t even see out of my eyes because I’ve gone to a very dead drop space. Well, you could call it dead but maybe it’s actually very much alive. People get uncomfortable when you’re really listening, when you’re really paying attention, because we’re not used to that anymore. But now I can really see you. I can see all of you”
Giancarlo Esposito (born 1958) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Giancarlo Esposito: ‘I hope Disney will always support what their stars say, but they have to be careful’" in The Independent (26 June 2021)
“But of course You can get so much done when everyone thinks You’re dead. No interruptions. No one prays to a dead God, why would they?”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source