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“These are the faces of children I embraced and kissed and loved. I cannot imagine that they are dead, that none would survive... A million and a half children among the six million... But this I knew... I wanted to save their faces, not their ashes.”
Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mitgang, Herbert (Oct. 2, 1983). Testament to a Lost People. New York Times Magazine. pg 47.
“You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.”
Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shepard, Richard F. "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies". New York Times (1859-Current file); Jan 23, 1990; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1951 - 2002) pg. D23.
“It's a picture perfect eveningAnd I'm staring down the sunFully loaded, deaf, and dumbAnd done waiting for sedation to disconnect my headOr any situation where I'm better off than dead”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She appears composedSo she is, I supposeWho can really tell?She shows no emotion at allStares into space like a dead china doll”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the place where time reverses. Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses. Instruments shine on a silver trayDon't let me get carried away.”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) said by 1773 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead.”
Diogenes Laërtius wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead.”
Diogenes Laërtius wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.”
Uma Thurman (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!”
Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scotland, the country where they fry the food five times to make sure it’s dead; the country where they invented bacon flavour mouthwash.”
Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It almost feels like a zombie at this point; it's the walking dead. It's such an abrupt end to what was E3, which had been this huge escalating arms race....Right now we're in this kind of dicey, do we have an event, what event is it, which one do we go to? I think we're in an uncomfortable transition zone when really the real E3 died a couple of years ago.”
Will Wright (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Weary Blues ", in The Weary Blues (1926)
“For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay — Except the dream that's almost dead today.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them? — Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.”
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.”
The Notorious B.I.G. (1972–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy…These achievements are due in part to the Reform Party…”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, National Citizens Coalition, 1994.
“There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about. How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.”
Usher (musician) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with VIBE, "Caught Up" (July 2008), p. 65-71.
“All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”
“So now we're cruisin' down this shuddering highway with the dead sun shining on my back. ~ Myrrh”
Steve Kilbey (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.”
David Brin (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Innocence would be dead long ago if wickedness were always allied to power, and calumny could prevail in all that it seeks to accomplish.”
Jerome (345–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.”
Ethan Hawke (born 1970) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (2000-12-08)
“King Pandion, he is dead, All thy friends are lapped in lead.”
Richard Barnfield (1574–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.”
John Webster (1578–1634) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Devil's Law Case (1623).
“I see what you mean about making a will, actually, although I still maintain that forty quid spent on deciding what's going to happen after you're dead is a waste of good beer money.”
“'...and we have already seen how insurance is like a pyramid - (Huge, incomprehensible, hideously expensive, completely unnecessary and specifically designed only to be of benefit to you once you're dead?)'”
“Talking to yourself is a sign of madness. Talking to yourself, dead, is class.'”
“I didn't find out she was actually the Queen of the Fey until some time later. Bit of a shock, but I think we could've made a go of it, if she hadn't been so dead set on wiping out the human race.”
“A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.”
Richard Jeni (1957–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Afsan stood tall. “I am not afraid.” “Fear is important, young one. Fear is the counselor. Those who don’t know when to fear wind up dead.”
Robert J. Sawyer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'You think,' he persisted, 'that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are.' 'Why are they — shameful?' I asked him. 'Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It's like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light.'”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“recently I went along with a field secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. in Mississippi to investigate a murder that had been hushed up. We rode around through those back roads for hours talking to people who had known the dead man, trying to find out what had happened. And the Negroes talked to us as the German Jews must have talked when Hitler came to power. (1969)”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The return of Denver's hearing, cut off by an answer she could not bear to hear, cut on by the sound of her dead sister trying to climb the stair, signaled another shift in the fortunes of the people of 124. From then on, the presence was full of spite. Instead of sighs and accidents there was pointed and deliberate abuse.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not dead I sit the sun closes my eyes when I open them I see the face I lost Sethe's is the face that left me Sethe sees me see her and I see the smile her smiling face is the place for me it is the face I lost she is my face smiling at me doing it at last a hot thing now we can join.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. "Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.”
“The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Golden Fleece (1944), Invocation
“Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, Tired out. After nine months he’s shed All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Through the Periscope" (1915) [first published in 1988]
“His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or leaf Every instant grow; he can Clearly through a flint wall see, Or watch the startled spirit flee From the throat of a dead man.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lost Love," lines 1-6, from Treasure Box (1919)
“So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As they say, art is pleasure, invention is treasure, and this nation has got to recognise that. If they can spend a fortune on dead sheep and formaldehyde, then it can spend a bit more of that money on inventors.”
Trevor Baylis (1937–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jonathan Sutherland, Diane Canwell (2008), Essential Business Studies A Level: AS Student Book for AQA. p. 23
“Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo. you see dead people?”
CM Punk (born 1978) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006
“There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Thomson
“Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love.”
Jonathan Edwards (theologian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dog lay dead five days without a grave In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine. I who had loved him while he kept alive Went only close enough to where he was To sniff the heavy honeysuckle-smell Twined with another odor heavier still And hear the flies' intolerable buzz.”
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, I was ten and very much afraid. In my kind world the dead were out of range And I could not forgive the sad or strange In beast or man.”
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source