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• “On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.”

  Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “WorkChoices is dead, it's buried, it's cremated.”

  Tony Abbott (born 1957) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in ABC News "WorkChoices haunt Abbott" on abc.net.au, July 19, 2010.

• “The countdown to President-elect Trump's inauguration has morphed into a search-and-rescue for the Barack Obama legacy, except that when something is dead; it becomes a recovery operation.”

  Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ‘Go On Now Go,’ Barack Obama, ‘Walk Out The Door …’ Townhall.com, January 19, 2017

• “Our technological revolution is quickly making degrees irrelevant for many of even the top jobs. Bill Gates didn’t graduate from college. Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of high school. So did blip.tv founder Mike Hudack. Dropping out of the standard school curriculum is not a dead end if it leads you toward a trade where you can earn a living and be proud of your achievements.”

  John Carney first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: What Obama Should Have Told The Kids Today," The Business Insider magazine, 8 September 2009.

• “Meaning in life can’t be reduced to simplistic mottos. In some number of years I will be dead; some memory of my time here on Earth may linger, but I won’t be around to savor it.”

  Sean M. Carroll (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They live indeed—the dead by whose example we are upward led.”

  Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Taken from the inscription on Mrs. Coates' headstone which is excerpted from a memorial poem she wrote for Eliza Sproat Turner, who died on 20 June 1903. "In Memory: Eliza Sproat Turner" from Mine and Thine (1904).

• “Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”

  Mother Jones (died 1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Benáres, that name is full of odours which have fled. By thy shores I saw the smoke from the pyres of three dead.”

  Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It’s all PR,” said Hutchins. “If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.”

  Jack McDevitt (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.”

  Bill Hybels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Father, dear father, come home with me now! The clock in the steeple strikes three; The house is so lonely, the hours are so long For poor weeping mother and me. Yes, we are alone, poor Benny is dead, And gone with the angels of light; And these were the very last words that he said, "I want to kiss Papa good night.”

  Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When the attack happened I was in Cuba, visiting my daughter, and I felt happiness. It didn’t hurt me at all, because, as I always say in my speeches, our dead children will be avenged the day when people, any people, are happy.”

  Hebe de Bonafini (1928–2022) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Source: Argentina: Hebe de Bonafini and "Las Madres…" (Carlos López, US; ex-Chile); Some rights groups have misguided agendas (in Spanish: Los aplausos al terrorismo, La Nación, 2001).

• “I was never allowed to play with guns when I was a child. While various friends were able to scamper around the woods with their Johnny Sevens, I had to make do with an old twig. And convincing an eight-year-old he was dead simply because I'd pointed a piece of larch his way was not quite as easy as you might imagine.”

  Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What foreigners like most about Britain is not multiculturalism or tolerance or any of that new Labour nonsense. No, what they like is our history. Shakespeare. Blenheim Palace. Soldiers in preposterous hats who don't move. Yes, they may go and see some dead dogs in a modern art gallery but that's only because they've spent the morning on top of a sightseeing bus and they're freezing.”

  Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Colonel Blimp is dead and buried, replaced by men in business suits.”

  Michael Parenti (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am always trying to find how to get the message through. [In Munich] we custom-made five thousand backpacks like the ones of those students [who died in Sichuan] to construct a simple sentence [spoken by the] mother of a dead student. It was: 'She has been happily living in this world for seven years.'”

  Ai Weiwei (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What then is it that, since 2007, has caused Wall Street capitalism's own suicide? At the bottom of this worst financial mess in a century is this: Milton Friedman-Friedrich Hayek libertarian laissez-faire capitalism, permitted to run wild without regulation. This is the root source of today's travails. Both of these men are dead, but their poisoned legacies live on.”

  Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Farewell to Friedman-Hayek Libertarian Capitalism", Tribune Media Services (2008)

• “I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.”

  Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ABC news Obituary (Feb 12 2010).

• “GG Allin: If you think I'm into this for the money you're dead wrong because I'm not doing this for the money. I'm doing it because it lives inside of me.”

  GG Allin (1956–1993) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.

• “As long as the aristocracy is healthy, the name of the sovereign sacred to it, and it loves the monarchy passionately, the State is unshakeable, whatever be the qualities of the king. But once it loses its greatness, its pride, its energy, its faith, the spirit withdraws, the monarchy is dead, and its cadaver is left to the worms.”

  Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “One child dead because of superstition is one too many.”

  Jerry Coyne (born 1949) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Vaccination-exemption law makes its way through the California legislature" June 26, 2015

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

  John Burdett (born 1951) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Bangkok Haunts (2007).

• “Stand up from among the dead, and patiently work as one waiting for the judgment-seat of Christ.”

  William Paton Mackay (1839–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[...] our confidence in foretelling and influencing events increases in inverse ratio to our ability to do so. The farther we go from ourselves and from the present, the less we sense the probabilities, and it is easy for us to be "dead certain" about things we cannot possibly know anything about.”

  Stephen Vizinczey (1933–2021) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Rules of Chaos (1969), pp. 23-24

• “When we speak of the Rumanian nation, we refer not only to the Rumanians currently living on the same territory, with the same past and same future, the same habits, the same language, the same interests. When we speak of the Rumanian nation we refer to all Rumanians, dead or alive, who have lived on this land of ours from the beginnings of history and will live on it also in the future.”

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What a disgrace to live at the beginning of the 20th century. … One is always influenced by one's own time. And ours is that of Sarah Bernhardt and Rostand. Things will be much better in another ten years. You will see a new art born, new and beautiful. You will see that, but I shall not. I shall be dead. But … Sarah Bernhardt will live forever, and go on playing L'AIGLON forever!”

  Renée Vivien (1877–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Unless you live in Christ, you are dead to God.”

  Rowland Hill (preacher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We must surrender our whole being to Christ Jesus, and cease to live any longer in ourselves, that He may become our life; that being dead, " our life may be hid with Christ in God.”

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (1648–1717) said by 1717 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It's our duty to honor the dead by bringing democracy to this country.”

  Jatuporn Prompan (born 1965) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in "Reds parade coffins as govt accuses "terrorists"" in Bangkok Post (12 April 2010)

• “When I am dead, bury me”

  Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The vultures were hungry." - The Vultures Ate My Dead Ass Up”

  Wesley Willis (1963–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Call the sun in the dead of the night And the sun gonna rise in the sky Touch a man who can't walk upright And that lame man, he gonna fly. And I fly, yeah, And I fly.”

  Neil Diamond (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The soul that rides deep through our veins, Our red rivers, and smiles. This darling soul, as endearing As dead poets and countries. This restless soul that neighbors our hearts. A perfect torch that guides our flames To immortality.”

  Masiela Lusha (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There were dead infantry all along the road, mostly killed from behind. Another case of cowardice carrying its own penalty; infantry who stood against cavalry had a chance, often a good one, but infantry who turned tail and ran had none. He didn’t pity them a bit.”

  H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.”

  Rob Pike (born 1956) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Rob Pike (2004) in interview at slashdot.com, Oct 18 2004

• “It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.”

  Antisthenes (445–365 BC) said by 365 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He was a stranger in a strange land: lost in the cosmos, a man with neither compass nor guide, sitting in a tomb in Egypt surrounded by the dead, with Giles—a man his own age, but separated by class and sensibility and four hundred years—looking to him for answers.”

  Stephen R. Lawhead (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hasslehoff, your liver is so shriveled, black, and dead. If you put your ear to your side you can hear it going "What you talking bout Willis".”

  Greg Giraldo (1965–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “On a global scale, the main problem is not the inflation of human life, but its ever-increasing, mindless over-valuation. Emphasis on the inalienable right to life of foetuses, premature infants and the brain-dead has become a kind of collective mental illness.”

  Pentti Linkola (1932–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.”

  Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.”

  Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Little General Monck Sat upon a trunk, Eating a crust of bread; There fell a hot coal And burnt in his clothes a hole, Now little General Monck is dead.”

  George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670) said by 1670 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Nursery rhyme; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed. 1997), pp365-6

• “Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

  Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So, now that we’re dead, what’s our next move?”

  Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The historian and the facts of history are necessary to one another. The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. My first answer therefore to the question, What is History?, is that it is a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past.”

  E. H. Carr (1892–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I believe in Jesus An' what the Bible said An' I am fairly certain He had himself a heavy head.He scared the lyin' people So bad, they hung him dead An' they never even listened To what he really said.”

  Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And the body of a dead youth Lies stretched upon the ground Upon the filthy pavements No reason can be found Black day in July”

  Gordon Lightfoot (1938–2023) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Black Day In July, Track 3, (mono 45 edit), UNITED ARTISTS 50281, March 1968

• “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”

  Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?”

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: WNYC Radio Podcast, RadioLab, "Gravitational Anarchy" November 29, 2010, Minute 16:33.

• “China's success proves that socialism is not dead. It is thriving. Just imagine this: had socialism failed in China, had our communist party collapsed like the party in the Soviet Union, then global socialism would lapse into a long dark age. And communism, like Karl Marx once said, would be a haunting spectre lingering in limbo.”

  Xi Jinping (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Xi Jinping article gives insight into China’s direction ahead of Communist Party congress (2018), South China Morning Post

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