Top 640 Dead Quotes

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

I’m not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that’s a dead end.

The newspapers were saying, ‘You have AIDS.’ They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly.

It just seems to me that there’s no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There’s a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

Once they get their hooks into you, you’re a dead pigeon.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

That this city has second lines – it’s something I’m proud of. When the bands come back from the cemetery, they’ll play something up – something like ‘I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead (You Rascal You)’ – that will bring the people back to life.

I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn’t architecture unless it’s alive. Alive is what art is. If it’s not alive, it’s dead, and it’s not art.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

As long as you don’t make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that’s condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.

It’s not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I’m watching ‘Night of the Living Dead Part Two’ all day, every day.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I’d figure her career was as dead as mine!

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can’t answer slurs, but I’m here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn’t.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of ‘The Naked and the Dead’ and American literature’s leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of ‘The Village Voice.’

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

A ghost is someone who hasn’t made it – in other words, who died, and they don’t know they’re dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you’re inhabiting their – let’s say, their domain. So they’re aggravated with you.

We weren’t by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

When Young Dolph dead and gone, people still going to be talking about the Paper Route Empire.

I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn’t be caught dead there.

If you had a game that said, ‘Oops, you’re dead. Now switch off the game,’ it wouldn’t be very successful. So you do need to have something to teach and be there to learn from, and we feel that death in video games is a positive experience.

I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Unless you’re flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what’s on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

If we’d had another carefree 70’s, I’d have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don’t know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can’t remember what about.

I’d rather look good dead and tanned, than pale and alive.

I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e., the formation of black pigment in the blood of patients affected by malaria.

I’m 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down – at least he did until he dropped dead.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don’t. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I’ll come back to.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to ‘crush’ the Ants. These guys hated each other.

I’ve done movies for certain reasons; I did ‘Anaconda’ because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn’t dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It’s like, ‘The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.’

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren’t the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration’s policy on global warming is dead wrong.

Lots of people aren’t comfortable with silences. They feel they’ve got to fill the dead air.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

I’d like to help repair the earth’s ecosystems, and to fully live until I’m fully dead.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

A ‘modern’ man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I think hip hop is dead. It’s all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It’s all commercial now.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he’s dead.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead – God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn’t see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.