Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn’t come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.
I saw the dead without really seeing them.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
I want to play in the NBA. I’m dead serious.
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead.
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can’t tell you. I could be dead.
Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it’s not a Grateful Dead project, it’s a Me project.
I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It’s unthinkable.
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.
I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it’s just got a bad flue.
Words do not pay for my dead people.
There’s nothing glamorous about being dead.
I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance – that’s all.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.
I believe strongly in ‘giving while living.’ I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it’s a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.
I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I’ve never felt like I’m a role model. I’m not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I’ll be dead so it won’t matter.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
The true Caribbean people… we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to have fun.
You only live a short time… and you are dead a long time.
Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
In theory, I’d like to work in a group. But the group I’d like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
When you’re dead, you’re dead. No one is going to remember me when I’m dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn’t the most important thing, anyhow. It’s what you do when you are here that’s important.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
The minute you start feeling like you’ve got it down, you know what you’re doing, you’re dead in the water.
Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world – one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it’s absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there.
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.
If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism’s carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 – of old age.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I’m at home and it’s dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.
I’ve been watching ‘Walking Dead’ with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it’s cool, and I like it.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so… we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you’re going to make a profit if everybody’s too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Harvesting the biosphere is still the most fundamental human activity. Without that, everybody’s dead, really. We could do quite well without microchips, or the business site of ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ the gated communities, Guccis, and high-growth GDP. But we cannot do without harvesting the crops and cutting down the wood.
I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.
