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“He seemed dead, but perhaps “dead” meant something different. Perhaps it meant something less permanent.”
Adrian Tchaikovsky (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old joys seem dead, old faces without joys; Laughter is dead. There is no mirth in boys.”
Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Old Age" in The Shorter Poems of Frederick Tennyson (1913)
“A dead lion is more than a dog is not dead.”
Braimah Kamoko (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Out on the wastes of the Never Never — That's where the dead men lie! There where the heat-waves dance forever — That's where the dead men lie!”
Barcroft Boake (poet) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Where the Dead Men Lie", st. 1, in The Bulletin (19 December 1891)
“Remember me when I am dead And simplify me when I’m dead.”
Keith Douglas (1920–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simplify me when I’m Dead", in Collected Poems (1951), pp. 56–7
“My life has always been in danger since the beginning. The first one was when old men from my village got together to curse me because I arrested my uncle. They had a big ceremony to curse me and they expected me to be dead in the next hour. But few days later, weeks later and years later I am not yet dead”
Josephine Kulea (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And how can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
Carson McCullers (1917–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the patient is dead, it was the disease killed him, not the Doctor. Dead men tell no tales.”
Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816) first seen 1815 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: vol. 2, bk. 2, ch. 9 (ed. 1815)
“You need to focus on the numbers you'll see in these cases and the dates, because there's a puzzle you need to solve to save yourself from the possession that has struck. Thirty living dead and dead living, with a wound on their backs bearing the letter Gh, and people acting unconsciously, or are they possessed?”
Alaa Sarhan wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we got to the rear, there must have been five acres of dead people. And I think I read somewhere that you feel guilty to be alive when you are among the dead. It struck me that that is very true.”
William R. Charette (1932–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now there's a bunch of us dead and a bunch of you guys dead. Now, now, that's your fault.”
David Koresh (1959–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Negotiating with McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch during the siege, quoted in Walliss 2004, p. 100
“High and miraculous skies bless and astonish my eyes; All my dead secrets arise, all my dead stories come true. Here is the Gate to the Sea. Once you unlocked it for me; Now, since you gave me the key, shall I unlock it for you?”
Stella Benson (1892–1933) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Titled "Song". Twenty (1918), p. 22
“The dead who frown I fear not: but I fear The dead who smile!”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A sense of something coming on the world, A crying of dead prophets from their tombs, A singing of dead poets from their graves.”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our political sloganeering, we have wished our political opponents dead. Literally, it would also mean wishing God dead since everybody was created in his image.”
Rudolf Nyandoro (born 1968) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian leaders: "we want to contribute to the peaceful development of the electoral process" (4 June 2018) Fides News Agency
“I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before. ... One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.”
Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry, 7 October 1918
“Regenschein is dead, my friend. You’re delirious.” “No one who writes a good book is really dead.”
Walter Moers (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The casualties are not only those who are dead; / They are well out of it. / The casualties are not only those who are dead, / Though they await burial by installment.”
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (1935–2020) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Casualties" (1970), detailing the pervasive psychological and societal scars of the Nigerian Civil War, text accessible via PoemHunter African Poetry Archive.
“THUNDER that has struck the elephant, the same thunder can make a bruise — condolences: we should forget the names. we should bury the date. the dead should bury the dead — condolences”
Christopher Okigbo (1930–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The right wing is dead. The Marxists are dead. It's a white revolution.”
Tom Metzger (1938–2020) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1989 speech at the white power concert, "Aryan Woodstock", quoted by SPLC
“Dead love or dead ambition, say, Which mourn we most? Not much we weigh Platonic friends.”
Amy Levy (1861–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was dead was never dead.”
Neec Nonso (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who are dead, are never dead.”
Neec Nonso (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no question in my mind that at least in the chip sector, globalization is dead. Just look at the way China has been embattled. Free trade is not quite that dead, but it's in danger.”
Morris Chang (born 1931) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TSMC founder: “In the chip sector, globalization is dead.” in Commonwealth Magazine (2023)
“It’s a planet of the dead for the dead, but there are a few of us who are still alive, and we're going to build a new world whether they like it or not. Of course they are going to try to resist that.”
Nikolas Schreck wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dead, for a ducat, dead!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Lady, he is dead and gone! Lady, he 's dead and gone! And at his head a green grass turfe, And at his heels a stone.”
Thomas Percy (1728–1811) said by 1811 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When death hath poured oblivion through my veins And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to serfs and thanes,— I shall not die, I shall not utterly die, For beauty born of beauty—that remains.”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't fear death. But I don't like being dangled out there like a piece of meat on a fishing rod to it either. If I'm going to die, take me out now. Don't let me suffer. That's not exactly the way I wanted to go. I don't want to be in limbo, I don't want to know that I might die. The mights don't work with me. I'm too literal.”
Anastacia (born 1968) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I don't fear death", The Guardian.com, March 15, 2004.
“One day Bird had approached his father with this question; he was six years old: Father, where was I a hundred years before I was born? Where will I be a hundred years after I die? Father, what will happen to me when I die? Without a word, his young father had punched him in the mouth, broke two of his teeth and bloodied his face, and Bird forgot the fear of death.”
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.”
Samuel Butler (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life-giving Spirit is the very one who slays you; the first thing the life-giving Spirit says is that you must enter into death, that you must die to – it is this way in order that you many not take Christianity in vain. A life-giving Spirit – that is the invitation; who would not willingly take hold of it! But die first – that is the halt!”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death is really the mystery of life, isn’t it? If you ask, “What happens when we die? Why do we die?” you are asking, “Why do we live?”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die. But I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.”
Sam Harris (born 1967) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sam Harris, Big Think Sam Harris On Death (4 July 2007)
“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.
“You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die. All of these things are common practice, and all of that information is available for America.”
Todd Akin (1947–2021) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: House of Representatives session, (January 22, 2008), quoted in {{citation
“Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His last hours alive. But he didn’t know! None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or she dies, they die, but there is no genuine form for “I”. Not really. All know that, none know when.”
Adam Roberts (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should have died sooner. But there was one thing: Mama's love. When I thought of that I couldn't die. It's true, as I have said, that just as man has the right to live as he chooses, he has the right to die when he pleases, and yet as long as my mother remained alive, I felt that the right to death would have to be left in abeyance, for to exercise it would have meant killing her too.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Philosophers have always spoken of life as a "preparation for death", and of philosophy as a "learning to die". But there is a wisdom prior to that: learning to abstain; not putting anyone in the situation of having to learn to die.”
Julio Cabrera (born 1944) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Porque te amo, não nascerás! Nascituri te salutant, 2009, p. 79
“Ûf einem grüenen achmardî truoc si den wunsch von pardîs, bêde wurzeln unde rîs. daz was ein dinc, daz hiez der Grâl, erden wunsches überwal. Repanse de schoy si hiez, die sich der grâl tragen liez. der grâl was von sölher art: wol muoser kiusche sîn bewart, die sîn ze rehte solde pflegn: die muose valsches sich bewegn.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nicht die Welt muss dem Iran nachweisen, dass er eine Bombe baut, sondern der Iran muss die Welt überzeugen, dass er die Atombombe nicht will.”
Angela Merkel (born 1954) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2007
“Wo die "Beleidigung sittlichen Gefühls", wo "moralische Begriffe" höher gestellt werden als die eigene, auf rationaler Basis erarbeitete Strafrechtstheorie, dort darf man mit voller Berechtigung von einem totalen Sieg des Vorurteils über die Vernunft sprechen.”
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (1929–2025) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tabu Homosexualität - Die Geschichte eines Vorurteils (1978; reprinted in 1981 as Homosexualität - Die Geschichte eines Vorurteils), p. 321.
“Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
Jim Butcher (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to live life to the ultimate high, Maybe I'll die young like heroes die, Maybe I'll kiss you some wild special way. If nobody kills me or thrills me soon, I'll die in your arms under the cherry moon.”
Prince (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Noch eine Art Anwendung des Relativitätsprinzips zum Ergötzen des Lesers: Heute werde ich in Deutschland als "deutscher Gelehrter", in England als "Schweizer Jude" bezeichnet; sollte ich aber einst in die Lage kommen, als "bète noire" präsentiert zu werden, dann wäre ich umgekehrt für die Deutschen ein „Schweizer Jude", für die Engländer ein "deutscher Gelehrter".”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source