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“I will say this, though—it’s a very odd thing not to be conscious. To be—to all intents and purposes—dead. Neither gathering nor generating information, as cold and changeless as eternity. How do you humans live with the thought of that hanging over every moment of your pitifully short existences?” “We don’t,” Kanu said. “We just get on with it.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On March 7, the Frontier Mail was stopped by a Muslim mob at Taxila Railway Station, in Rawalpindi district. Hindu and Sikh passengers, especially the latter, were pulled out and 22 dead bodies were left on the platform.”
Gurbachan Singh Talib (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Baoli Sahib Gurdwara, situate in Dabbi Bazar, and close to two thickly populated Muslim areas, was burned on the 4th June. The place was in flames, and such Sikhs as were inside it were shot dead or roasted alive. (108-9) (Lahore)”
Gurbachan Singh Talib (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Besides the Muslim mobs and assassins, Muslim police shot out of hand any Sikh or Hindu they could lay hands on. Muslim police are known to have gone about prowling of a night, to have sometimes called out of their homes Hindus and Sikhs and to have shot them dead on the spot. This practice they called ‘shikar’ and it was a terror for Hindus and Sikhs.”
Gurbachan Singh Talib (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of the male refugees were butchered or shot dead. The women were sorted. The elderly ones were later butchered, while the younger ones were distributed. Children were murdered by being flung with force on the ground.”
Gurbachan Singh Talib (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On March 13, three-year old Milon Moni Das was abducted by local Muslims.... a neighbour found the Hindu child dead in some bushes.... Police then took one Muslim into custody, but released him after intervention by the local Awami League chairman. There has been no further action.... (99)”
Richard Benkin (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.”
Scott Nearing (1883–1983) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography (1973)
“Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth”
Ralph Chaplin (1887–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to put up some kind of a beef. Scream or holler or scratch or make some sound that you’re alive and can fight. You know, cough or do something. Otherwise, they just walk past you and look at you and say, “He must be dead, he ain’t moving.”
Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Appreciate the magnificent brain you possess. Protect and nurture it. Strive to be a good skeptic and critical thinker so that fewer hours of your precious life will be squandered on dead-end beliefs. Always try to think like a scientist so that you might better know truth from fiction.”
Guy P. Harrison (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great men whilst living must expect disgraces, Dead they're ador'd—when none desire their places.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) first seen 1752 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated", lines 19-20, in Poems (1752), p. 87
“Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea... down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins... when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes.”
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 49,
“Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship.”
Susan Howatch (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. A man should feel free to tell his chief executive to his face, 'I think you're dead wrong about such and such, and here are my reasons.'”
Harold Geneen (1910–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are we in a dream?” Lebret asked. “Might we actually be dead and in some afterlife?” “How could we test either supposition?” the scientist asked, with characteristic practical-mindedness. “What conceivable experiment could we design to falsify such a claim?”
Adam Roberts (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know exactly what I have photographed [in his series 'Equivalents', 1925 - 1934]. I know I have done something that has never been done.. .I also know that there is more of the really abstract in some 'representation' than in most of the dead representations of the so-called abstract so fashionable now.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter about his 'Equivalents' to w:Hart Crane; as quoted in Photography as High Art, Hilton Kramer, (1982-12-19)., in 'New York Times'. p. 1. Retrieved 2008-12-26; as quoted on Wikipedia.
“I would much rather have a living husband with no job and no gold than a dead one.”
Nick Drake (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I am dead I would like to be buried in a wood coffin (no lead lined casket!) So that my remains can return to where they came from. I understand that this might not be possible though, laws and what not, so don't sweat it.”
Eric Frein (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are so many people who tell me, “if I had a time machine and could prove that Jesus never rose from the dead”, with the admission that “I hope my faith and I are strong enough that I can keep on believing, even when my eyes tell me otherwise.” That’s make-believe! That’s lying to yourself. That’s the entirety of what religion is.”
Aron Ra (born 1962) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exclusive Interview with Aron Ra – Public Speaker, Atheist Vlogger, and Activist, Conatus News (May 17, 2017)
“Not everything that is big and dead is a dinosaur.”
“I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir. (p265)”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A]t the same time you have to do pruning.., you encourage growth and you remove unnecessary clutter so you can see through the jungle, and it simplifies... and... removes unnecessary dead wood.”
Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Star of my heart, I follow from afar. Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are, Where Time is not, and only dreamers are. Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed. O lead me to Jehovah's child Across this dreamland lone and wild, Then will I speak this prayer unsaid, And kiss his little haloed head— "My star and I, we love thee, little child.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mumbo-Jumbo is dead in the jungle.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A novel?” André laughed. “The novel’s dead—don’t waste your time. The novel takes a small—oh, infinitely small—cut-and-dried section of so-called reality and calls it art. Your life is art. Don’t waste it trying to write a novel.”
Lisa Goldstein (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not long after Miles and Eric hitch to St. Louis, Graham turns to me and says, "Let's hitch to Chicago!" "Right now?" I ask, peering up from my American government text. "Why not?" says Graham. "You've got to learn to do things when you want to; otherwise you'll be just like one of the plastic people, the dead people." So by one A.M. we are on the road. ...”
Mark Satin (born 1946) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Page 40. It's the fall of 1964. Satin is a freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. "Plastic" became one of his favorite adjectives.
“You say you wake up In the morning Feeling used Like a fallen angel Tired and bruised It's got you feeling So insane More dead than alive Love's got you stained On the inside”
Traci Lords (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(May) the dead body of agony remain asleep resting its head on a pillow of flowers.”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The leaders who are now managing the Democratic Party in this state are the men who at the regular session of the legislature in 1861, declared that, if an army went from Indiana to assist in puting down the rebellion, it must first pass over their dead bodies.”
Oliver P. Morton (1823–1877) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As contained in Treason Exposed: Record of the Disloyal Democracy (1866), Republican Party (Ind.) State Central Committee, p. 1
“I am speaking in dead earnest, before God. God's own truth. It has the violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy. It has the offensive and brutal lusts of polygamy, all combined and concentrated in itself, with aggravations that neither one of these crimes ever knew or dreamed of.”
Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) first seen 1838 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 193
“The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years. p. 88”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inside every adult was a child, or so it is said. Professor Petra Mayer was different. Inside Petra Mayer was an impossibly beautiful, barefoot adolescent who wouldn’t have been seen dead giving her inner child the time of day.”
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.”
David Souter (1939–2025) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Cameras in Supreme Court, Souter Says, 'Over My Dead Body', The New York Times, March 30, 1996
“That blind attitude of the Society of Knowledge is similar in all to the proud consideration that "our language is better because it’s understood." Just that with a completely tragic intensity, that could be translated like this: "our dead are true because they hurt.”
Jorge Majfud (born 1969) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Collateral Effects", from the book Words Can (2007) United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF]
“We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.”
Jorge Majfud (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La generación FaceNoBook, Revista Alma Mater, La Habana (July 2012), p. 5
“Spread out before the pyramid, as far as the eye could see, stretched a frozen ocean of blackness—stinking oily blackness that bubbled and churned. Voider than void, colder than cold, deader than dead. It is your world. It is the world we will make for you.”
M. K. Hobson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.”
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.”
Frederick Buechner (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women sleep so soundly they seem to be dead. Who knows? Women may live in order to sleep.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Schopenhauer makes two curiously inconsistent claims about the wretchedness of human existence. We can object, he claims, both that our lives are filled with suffering which makes them worse than nothing, and that time passes so swiftly that we shall soon be dead. These are like Woody Allen’s two complaints about his hotel: ‘The food is terrible, and they serve such small portions!’”
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognised as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food! Careful microscopic examination may show little or no difference between the fence corner carcass and the butcher shop carcass. Both are swarming with colon germs and redolent with putrefaction.”
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Romance of the Cow by Dahyabhai H. Jani, The Bombay Humanitarian League, 1938, p. 81.
“The dead will rise again — at least in Pennsylvania, to vote.”
Steve Bannon (born 1953) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: War Room Pandemic, Ep. 485 Nov. 9 2020 at 40:50
“God spoke to me and God told me, "Keep your son,” And I did and he saved my life. My son saved my life. Had I not had my son, I would probably be dead right now.”
Stacey Dash (born 1967) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EXCLUSIVE: Stacey Dash Says Not Having an Abortion 'Saved' Her Life, Reveals She's Abstaining From Sex Before Marriage (June 2, 2016)
“Someone said that Capitalism will eat itself, and I think that’s like the meat industry, the meat industry itself will become dead meat and compassion will reign supreme.”
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958–2023) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zephaniah Speaks: Poetic Thoughts", interview with Arkangel Magazine (2002) reported in BenjaminZephaniah.com
“Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”
David Crystal (born 1941) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Crystal, Language Play, University of Chicago Press, 1998
“The sea raises you to your feet. And dead calm. Strands of light hold your hand. Now you have left this shore. Now you are in the wind of an invisible sail.”
Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mirkka Rekola, Kuka lukee kanssasi (Who is Reading with You), 1990; Translated by Sari Hantula. Quoted at Mirkka Rekola, at electricverses.net, accessed 20-03-2017.
“I sang to my dear dead mother”
Eino Leino (1878–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.”
Dada Vaswani (1918–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source