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“When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!”
Kevin D. Williamson (born 1972) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Governance Envy" (May 2020), National Review
“It's hard to be desperate, when you are dead.”
Rachel Scott (1981–1999) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Desperate Measures" (25 April 1998), as quoted in Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine (2008), by Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve Rabey, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p. 127
“You’d know that if you’d studied something useful like engineering instead of, what is it this year, Down With Dead White Males, or whatever they call your artsy-fartsy curriculum.”
Margaret Ball (1515–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Revolution is dead. Long Live the Revolution”
“The only hope you have is to get her to an American hospital?" Cummings asked, repeating what Izzy had just said. Izzy started to answer. The cell phone went dead. "Izzy?" Cummings said. "Izzy?" How did moments of decency occur in this war? "Izzy," Cummings said. "Bring your daughter here." That was how.”
David Finkel (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The N.R.A. calls the AR-15 the most popular rifle in America. The carnage in Florida on Wednesday that left at least 17 dead seemed to confirm that the rifle and its variants have also become the weapons of choice for mass killers.”
Richard A. Oppel Jr. wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fire in my heart is turned to ashes. I feel like a monk; Only my head is still unshaven.O poor heart! How wind and rain have worn you out! How the partings from friends, dead and alive, Have torn you to pieces!This orphan-like candlestick Appears like an old friend to me.There remains one thing alone That keeps me from a complete Awakening:— Love still smoulders in the ashes of my heart!”
Nalan Xingde (1655–1685) said by 1685 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nocturnal Thoughts in a Temple" (trans. Teresa Li), as quoted in Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction (1961) by Ch'en Shou-Yi, p. 553
“Don’t be like that, mate. After all, it all turned out okay in the end, right?” If by okay, he meant a dead fiancée, a child that wasn’t his and his soul mate lost forever on the other side of the world, then yeah, he was great, Nick thought bitterly.”
John Marrs wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is extremely symbolic that Advani is the heir of Nathuram Godse who, in pursuit of what he was convinced was his duty to India, shot dead the man who had chanted the name of Ram all his life till his last breath.”
M. J. Akbar (born 1951) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Illustrated Weekly of India, 22/12/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
“He will come again with His glorious Presence to judge the quick and the dead; no longer flesh, nor yet without a body, according to the laws which He alone knows of a more godlike body.”
Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390) said by 390 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“John Mortimer: Now that nuclear weapons exist, you have to face the fact that you would rather be conquered by, say, the Russians than have the world blown up? Thompson: Yes, I think so. Don't you? Mortimer: Better red than dead? Thompson: Yes. Mortimer: So, if nuclear weapons had existed in 1939, we would have had to accept conquest by Hitler to save a nuclear war? Thompson: Yes.”
E. P. Thompson (1924–1993) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview quoted in John Mortimer, In Character (1983), p. 101
“It's too much of a coincidence that someone gets killed and is dead the next day.”
Nicolás Maduro (born 1962) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Las 'metidas de pata' de Maduro en 14 frases...Y no es una inocentada, El País (12 January 2015)
“Some of the crazy lefties at the ABC, and on The Guardian, Huffington Post, can express concern and draw mean cartoons about me and all the rest of it. They don’t realise how completely dead they are to me.”
Peter Dutton (born 1970) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on 2GB radio, 22/03/2018
“I kind of feel like Old Darko died. Like, when I think about myself, or myself when I was playing, I feel like I’m sort of thinking about someone who is dead.”
Darko Miličić (born 1985) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Finding Darko" (8 February 2017), by Sam Borden, ESPN
“There are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity or worries whether the government will restart the process in the Legislative Council, so I reiterate here, there is no such plan. The bill is dead.”
Carrie Lam (born 1957) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said at a press conference on 9 July 2019 after the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Quoted by the BBC. Hong Kong extradition bill 'is dead' says Carrie Lam (9 July 2019) on the BBC website. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
“I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.”
Jeremy Renner (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m like everybody else. This kind of living ain’t much better than being dead.” He laughed again, shaking his head from side to side. “And it ain’t much better on the outside, to tell the truth. No real work to do, except the same kind of crap you do in here. At the Worker Dormitories they told us, ‘Labor fulfills.’ Horseshit.”
Walter Tevis (1928–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So he wasn’t dead. That was probably supposed to be a good thing.”
Brent Weeks (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chinese holiday names are not dead yet, although I would hardly call them alive either: they are truly undead vocabularies.”
Thorsten J. Pattberg (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Edmund Burke made the central conservative insight; that a culture and a society are not things run for the convenience of the people who happen to be here right now, but is a deep pact between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.”
Douglas Murray (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never felt so alive as you did after you came out of a battle in one piece. And if you were dead? You wouldn’t feel that...”
Steve Perry (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only way to crack a real problem is to face it. Look your issues dead in the eye and sort out the beef between you.”
Connor Franta (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I claim not to raise the dead, but I can arouse the Saints who come to meetings to sleep and rest, but often am forced to use unseemly language to put it over.”
J. Golden Kimball (1853–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Darya was beginning to understand why she might be ruined forever for academic life. Certainly, the world of ideas had its own pleasures and thrills. But surely there was nothing to compete with the wonderful feeling of being alive, after knowing without a shadow of doubt that you would be dead in one second.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had it (the dead body of the prince) dragged by elephants through his camp and it was subsequently hung up on a tree along with seventeen of the followers of the prince who had been captured alive.”
William Logan (author) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (p. 512). quoted from Ravi Varma, " Tipu Sultan: As Known In Kerala" in Tipu Sultan: Villain or hero? : an anthology. (1993).
“Pain comes to us from deep back, from where it grew in the human body. Pain sucks more pain into it, we don't know why. It lives, and we harbor its weight. When the worst comes, we will not act the opposite. We will do what we were taught, we who learnt our lessons in the dead light. We pass them on. We hurt, and hurt others, in a circular motion. (p199)”
Louise Erdrich (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Chicana writing the love between a grandmother and a granddaughter is holier than the relationship between a mother and a daughter because the mother and daughter have to deal with the reality of the everyday, whereas the grandmother can be revered from afar. Especially if she’s dead, she becomes this mythic symbol in Chicana literature.”
Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how the archetypical grandmother figure in Chicana literature in “Interview with Sandra Cisneros” in The Missouri Review (2002 Mar 1)
“It is a difficult thing to grow up knowing that the thing where we can hold on to take root is dead.”
Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I kept on ignoring him. The dead are only ghosts, after all.”
Sean Stewart (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m so much happier now that I’m dead.”
Gillian Flynn (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast. (first lines)”
Celeste Ng (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.”
Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? He was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach…”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if it does not sing discard the ear for poetry is song if it does not delight discard the heart for poetry is joy if it does not inform then close off the brain for it is dead if it cannot heed the insistent message that life is preciouswhich is all we poets wrapped in our loneliness are trying to say”
Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone was saying that painting was dead, and really believing it. It was a very difficult time for me. I felt unsupported and isolated…”
Celia Paul (born 1959) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On continuing to paint during the 1990s in “Celia Paul by Hilton Als” in BOMB Magazine (2015 Dec 21)
“No one should be beaten. [Instead,] everything that bothers us should be carefully, but unyieldingly eliminated by means of deportation... A tooth without a root is considered dead. A nationalist is he who does not want the root ‘Russian’ to be deleted from the word ‘Russia.’ We have the right to be Russian in Russia and we will protect this right.”
Alexei Navalny (1976–2024) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments posing as a dentist in a satirical video, as quoted in "Putin crafts spectacle for re-election landslide" (18 March 2018), by Raisa Ostapenko in The Cambridge Globalist (1 April 2018); the orginal video "Become…
“In the ebb and flow of battle there are usually only brief flashes of bravery before the brave become the dead.”
Tade Thompson (born 1950) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013), , p. 237-238
“I'm dead set on living my one life right, but I can't say the same for my brother. No one's expecting Brighton to be full-grown when we turn eighteen at midnight, but he needs to step it up.”
Adam Silvera (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…As curanderas say when a patient suffers from susto (the separation of the soul from the body), “Vente. No te quedes allí. Come back. Don't stay over there.” As playwrights we have no choice but to raise our dead.”
Elaine Romero first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On recognizing the barrios of Tucson in “Getting Down with Barrio Stories” (HOWLROUND THEATRE COMMONS; 2016 Mar 17)
“I want you to stay 'Til I'm in the grave 'Til I rot away, dead and buried 'Til I'm in the casket you carry”
Billie Eilish (born 2001) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The importance of the institution will be better understood if we take into consideration the enormous extent of waqf/land or, the possessions of the Dead Hand, in the various countries of Islam. In the Turkey of 1925, three-fourths of the arable land, estimated at 50,000,000 Turkish pounds, was endowed as waqf.”
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee (1899–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Nazarenes were an ancient Jewish sect whose most famous member before Jesus was Samson, 21 known from the Old Testament story. They gave special importance to uncut hair, which they believed to contain divine power, and were later associated with the Essenes, the nationalistic religious community on the Dead Sea to which Jesus and Thomas belonged.”
Ishwar Sharan wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only good artist is a dead artist.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if you live to one hundred, you’ll still be dead forever.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone is dead in heaven.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the future everyone will be dead for 15 minutes.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the whole population were to consume and emit like Ireland and Switzerland, we would be living on a dead planet right now.”
Jason Hickel (born 1982) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extreme Poverty isn't Natural, it's Created (28 March 2021)
“When I regained consciousness, I was transferred to a psychiatric clinic. I stayed there for twenty-two days. Against previous diagnoses, which identified a bipolar disorder, I was diagnosed with a personality disorder. Again, I was medicated enough to practically not be able to speak. I remember walking through those halls more dead than alive.”
Abel Azcona (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tall as they grow, the flowers Are pale here, as if dead. Just one right in the middle Stands there so dark and red. Its hue is not from the daylight, No sun has burned this bud, Its red is from the earth bed, And that drank human blood!”
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source