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“I was dead then alive, She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine; You can pour us out, we won't mind, As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine.”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Son of the widow You raised from the dead... Where did His soul go When He died again?”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the Moon rose and the hour grew late, The day help on a Coconut estate raked up the dry leaves that fell dead from the trees, Which they burned in a pile by the lake. The Beetle King summoned his men, and from the top of the Rhododendron stem: "Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again.”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If that is not the case, then we are talking about something that happened in the past, even if it was today, this morning, but it's over. You know, there are people dead and buried in their graves still affecting people, because no one ever forgave them for what they did — that's what not forgiving does — it lets an event live and live with bitterness and hurt, when it needs to be let go.”
Ysabella Brave (born 1979) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Forgiveness" (7 July 2007)
“Now there was fought a battle such as men have not seen the like. And the earth was covered with steel, and arrows fell from the clouds like hail, and the ground was torn with hoofs, and blood flowed like water upon the plains. And the dead lay around in masses, and the feet of the horses could not stir because of them.”
Ferdowsi (940–1020) said by 1020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed; Beloved till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity’s self be dead.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I c…
“Those we loved, they’re dead. Faces behind hands, shy shawls dropped, modestly awry. Those we love, they’re married.”
András Petőcz (born 1959) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A BANAL POEM, SUBJECT: LOVE (1984).
“I didn't care. It was better to be a live coward than a dead madman. These people walking in and out of huge concrete buildings--someone should warn them. It would come again...Los Angeles was doomed. It was a city with a curse upon it.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind - the Jew has got to be exterminated!”
Robert Ley (1890–1945) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: May 1943. Quoted in David Cesarani The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (1994), p. 224
“The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point "in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“George Romero filmed an homage to the book, and he called it Night of the Living Dead. Homage means I can make the picture and I don't have to pay you for your book. As a teen-ager I saw the movie "Dracula," and it occurred to me that if one vampire was scary, a whole world populated by vampires would be really scary.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Society has already told us that poetry is dead. Let's build a funeral pyre out of the desiccated conventions piled around us and watch the ancient, spangle-feathered, unkillable phoenix rise from the ashes.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tradition is not, as post-modernists maintain, a library or museum the artist plunders. It is the endless conversation between the living and the dead. Young artists enter into this conversation passionately — not merely intellectually, though study and analysis play a part. They live and breathe it. Tradition is not a public building. It is a love affair.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paradigms Lost," interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum (Spring 1995)
“What should I say? Since Faith is dead, And Truth away From you is fled?”
Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) said by 1542 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was to be done? — 'twas perfectly plain That they could not well hang the man over again: — What was to be done? — The man was dead! — Nought could be done — nought could be said; So — my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed!”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! what if some unshamed iconoclast Crumbling old fetish raiments of the past, Rises from dead cerements the Christ at last? What if men take to following where He leads, Weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?”
Roden Noel (1834–1894) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Red Flag (1872).
“When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.”
Edward Everett (1794–1865) first seen 1823 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth" In The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal Vol. V, No. 25 (January-June 1823), p. 64.
“Fame is a food that dead men eat,— I have no stomach for such meat.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fame Is a Food That Dead Men Eat" (1906), line 1, in Collected Poems (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd, 1913), p. 569.
“Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.”
David Fasold (1939–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it a greater theft to Rob the dead of their Praise, then the Living of their Money.”
Edward Ravenscroft (1654–1707) first seen 1591 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia (1686); quoted in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Shakespeare from 1591-1700, vol 2, ed. John Munro (1932).
“Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead — ho! ho! — As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is one of the most highly secret matters there are, perhaps the most secret. Anybody who speaks about it is shot dead immediately. Two talkative people died yesterday.”
Odilo Globocnik (1904–1945) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Kurt Gerstein, 17 August 1942. Quoted in "Genocide, Critical Issues of the Holocaust" - Page 455 - by Alex Grobman, Daniel Landes, Sybil Milton - History - 1983.
“Don't worry. Your friends are dead and you are going to join them.”
Klaus Barbie (1913–1991) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Blandon from "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons" - Page 63 - by Tom Bower - Biography & Autobiography - 1984
“They shouldn't need photographs to prove this guy is dead. They should have kept the body. They should have brought the son-of-a-bitch back to New York, pickled him in alcohol, and mounted him on top of the Ground Zero mosque with a pork chop in his mouth and a fireman's axe up his ass — or is that just me? Facing Mecca, of course, because we wouldn't want to be disrespectful.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Justice for Osama" (8 May 2011)
“Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays.”
John Leonard (critic) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Funny Things to Think About and Eat", The New York Times (4 July 1982)
“Love is dead; let lovers' eyes Locked in endless dreams Th' extreme of all extremes Ope no more, for now Love dies.”
John Ford (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That dissociated selves were an everyday part of life in antiquity and the Middle Ages is a much-denied fact of historians, just as anthropologists deny that their subjects are dissociated personalities who live in an animistic world full of alters inhabiting animals, objects, and dead ancestors.”
Lloyd deMause (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are talking to dead men here.”
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Luftwaffe officer sent to Stalingrad. Quoted in "Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History" - Page 152 - by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, Helmut D. Schmidt, Dennis E. Showalter - History - 1994
“In the lives of most women and men There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back and be forgiven.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best immortality prospect for the materialist looks to be either deep freezing dead bodies until a cure is found, or computer replication of brains in silicon. One won’t work and the other can’t survive a power outage.”
Robert J. Marks II (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must stand together to counter Islamization. We must speak the truth and defend our civilization. If we fail to do so, we will end up either enslaved or dead.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: DECKER: 5 Questions with Geert Wilders", The Washington Times (14 September 2012)
“I'm sorry, But the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)”
Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Dick Cheney, it must have felt just like any other day at the office: Folks who don't shave, don't bathe, and want him dead. Wow, feels just like back home!”
Rachel Marsden (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hail to the land whereon we tread, Our fondest boast! The sepulchres of mighty dead, The truest hearts that ever bled, Who sleep on glory’s brightest bed, A fearless host: No slave is here:—our unchained feet, Walk freely as the waves that beat Our coast.”
James Gates Percival (1795–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Galba... a miserable sort of man... bisexual... fancied mature slaves, especially if they had been a little mutilated... all his freed men had no fingers on the left hands... he's dead -- died screaming... in a cellar.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Titus... he started well... soon became greedy... disembowelled on the Tiber steps... he's dead, died screaming...”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is some comfort to be had in contemplating the folly of so many dead, don't you think? … and more comfort still in contemplating the continuity.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can -- your mother's dead.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cinema is dead. I can give you a date - it died on the 31st of September, 1983, when the zapper or the remote control was introduced to the livings rooms of the world. Bang! That's the end.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A]ll lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the king’s gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They called him dead; And made his eldest son one day Slave in his father’s stead.”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If somebody invented a magic bullet tomorrow that would somehow eliminate racial IQ disparities among all babies born from now on, measurable (though diminishing) gaps in the total population would still exist until everybody alive today is dead in the 22nd century.”
Steve Sailer (born 1958) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crimethink and Thinking Ability, Taki's Magazine, January 30, 2012
“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personal Pleasures (1935). Quoted in "Words", in Rosalie Maggio (ed.), The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, 1996.
“It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.”
Buddy Wakefield (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dead govern the living.”
Auguste Comte (1798–1857) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn while you're young," he often said, "There is much to enjoy, down here below; Life for the living, and rest for the dead!" Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.”
George Arnold (1834–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source