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• “I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where's Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”

  George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: White House Press Conference (September 20, 2007)

• “I hope I'm judged a success. I'm well-be dead, Matt, when they finally figure it out, and I'm comfortable knowing that I gave it my all, that I love America.”

  George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Interview with Matt Lauer (2010), aired 8 November 2010.

• “Caesar: The Bush administration is accusing Zimbabwe's president of rigging the election over there... I wonder if this is what they mean when they say political satire is dead.”

  George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

  Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "Foreword

• “Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.”

  Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White,…

• “I had a vision, l saw the world burn And the seas had turned red The sun had fallen, the final curtain In the land of the dead Mother, please show the children Before it's too late To fight each other, there's no one winning We must fight all the hate”

  Ozzy Osbourne (1948–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I can't believe I'm still here, I know I should be dead.”

  Ozzy Osbourne (1948–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tolkien's dead. J. K. Rowling said no. Philip Pullman couldn't make it. Hi, I'm Terry Pratchett.”

  Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

  Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Have you been wondering just where we are? After all, theologians have debated for centuries over the exact location of Heaven. Some have said that Heaven can be found beyond the stars. Some say it exists in the heart of Man, and others claim that it does not exist at all, that God is dead, or at least unemployed.”

  Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What’s it like being dead?” Hebert asked. “Not bad, really,” Wood Owl answered after a moment’s consideration. “Like waiting for a tax refund, only slower.”

  Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They should give medals for this, Martinez.” “By the time the paperwork goes through, we’ll both be dead and gone.” “Too true.”

  Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead.”

  Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.”

  Richard Dawkins (born 1941) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: (6 March 2021)

• “Somehow this was it, I knew. Maybe fate wants you dead, too: We've come together in the very same room, And I'm coming for you!”

  Kate Bush (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.”

  Walt Whitman (1819–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.”

  G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In The Daily News (18 February 1905)

• “The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.”

  G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Journey of the Magi" (1927)

• “Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mistah Kurtz — he dead”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This is the dead land This is cactus land.”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 4

• “The bodies and the bones of those That strove in other days to pass, Are wither'd in the thorny close, Or scatter'd blanching on the grass. He gazes on the silent dead: "They perish'd in their daring deeds." This proverb flashes thro' his head, "The many fail: the one succeeds.”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O eyes long laid in happy sleep! O happy sleep, that lightly fled! O happy kiss, that woke thy sleep! O love, thy kiss would wake the dead!”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Perfectly beautiful: let it be granted her: where is the fault? All that I saw (for her eyes were downcast, not to be seen) Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.”

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Now it is all over. The French nation is dead. Conclusion, Part Second, I”

  Victor Hugo (1802–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady in the long run, and to take her revenge too — transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portrait of Yesterday.”

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)

• “When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: When the Lamp is Shattered (1822), st. 1

• “It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I weep for Adonais — he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now - Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep— He hath awakened from the dream of life— 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. (2.9).”

  Walker Percy (1916–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself — whoever himself may be — is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.”

  E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? — "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." — That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.”

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My readers, if any readers have accompanied me thus far, must be satisfied, and indeed satiated, with the repeated proofs which I have made of the weight and temper of my adversary's weapons. They have, in every assault, fallen dead and lifeless to the ground: they have more than once recoiled, and dangerously wounded the unskilful hand that had presumed to use them.”

  Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Vindication (1779), section XVI

• “Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs.”

  Alexander Pope (1688–1744) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Spence's Anecdotes and The Guardian (21 May 1713); as quoted in The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating by Howard Williams (London: F. Pitman, 1883), p. 132

• “Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”

  Alexander Pope (1688–1744) first seen 1721 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" (1721)

• “Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead.”

  Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Odes, Book iv, Ode 9, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 31

• “Emigravit is the inscription on the tomb-stone where he lies; Dead he is not, but departed, — for the artist never dies.”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Nuremburg (1846).

• “Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Children, st. 9 (1858).

• “In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face — the face of one long dead — Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Cross of Snow (1879).

• “Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow

• “There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair!”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow

• “Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.”

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow

• “The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.”

  Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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