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going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole — Sharon Jones

She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live. — Bette Lee Crosby

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there. — William DeVries

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They're in trouble, Kaz had thought. Or you were dead wrong about Matthias, and you're about to pay for all of those talking tree jokes. — Leigh Bardugo

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead. — John Updike

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. — Alexander Pope

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth. — Bob Marley

Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. — Marcus Aurelius

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. — Neil Gaiman

You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,"
"For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife, — Grace Draven

I promise you, when I'm done, your ass will be sore, but others will be dead." "You're not being literal, are you?" "Yes, your ass will be sore." I — Aleatha Romig

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process. — Glen Mazzara

You're not out for the count until you're dead. — Silvia Hartmann

Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree. — Robert Holdstock

I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead. — Hanya Yanagihara

I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time.
- Rose — J. Yates

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet. — Kelly Braffet

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. — T. S. Eliot

I don't really blame you for being dead but you can't have your sweater back. — Richard Siken

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. — R. K. Milholland

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead. — Anne Sexton

I war not with the dead. — Homer

In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me. — Victoria Aveyard

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead. — Roger Scruton

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper. — Nicki Minaj

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it. — Stephen Coonts

The dead do not think logically, for they do not think at all. — Tony Daniel

Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead. — Christopher Fowler

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be. — Jack Nicholson

Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it. — Mickey Hart

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead. — Philip K. Dick

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave — Charles Caleb Colton

If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival. — Randy Weber

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?
- Eric, club dead. — Charlaine Harris

It takes something to stand out a little, and you can't swing a dead cat on Ganymede without hitting five botany PhDs. — James S.A. Corey

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

Might be dead and buried. V. well, there is more to E.'s & my pax — David Mitchell

I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy. — Bill Kreutzmann

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres. — Michael Bloomberg

It's funny. I did give birth to an alien on 'The X-Files.' And it's just the teaser, so I'm dead before we even get into the episode. — Megan Follows

A panicked person is a dead person - June — Marie Lu

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living — Mother Jones

Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel. — Sarah Pinborough

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans! — Mark Russell

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham

There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them. — Amanda Stevens

Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew. — Sarah Winman

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince. — Duane Allman

Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead? — Audrey Niffenegger

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness. — Javier Marias

The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. — Marya Hornbacher

May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy? — Bram Stoker

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The American dream is dead for the majority of America. — Suze Orman

The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires — V.E Schwab

Hear the leaves applauding
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head — Shannon Hale

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

She smiled, and his dead heart warmed.
One smile would never be enough. — Lisa Kessler

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead. — David Mamet

We were never properly introduced," I said in a vicious purr. "I'm the Red Reaper, and you're dead. — Jeaniene Frost

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both. — Aldous Huxley

Maybe when you're dead you can crawl inside other people and make them nicer than they were before. — Carol Rifka Brunt

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement. — Christina Engela

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. — Walter Raleigh

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. — Albert Einstein

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead. — Ana Monnar

Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth. — Charles Bukowski

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests. — Winston Churchill

She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want. — Richard Stark

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news. — Aaron Sorkin

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. — James T. Farrell

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq. — Paul Bremer

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. — Martial

Our dead come for their vengeance regardless of witnesses — Madeline Miller

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning... — Rebecca McNutt

Weep, for the light is dead. — Friedrich Schiller

When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne? — George R R Martin

Is she dead, Mr. Stone Fox? Is she dead?" little Willy asked, looking up at Stone Fox with his one good eye. — John Reynolds Gardiner

Mankind's a dead issue now, cousin. There are no more souls. Only states of mind. — Bruce Sterling

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. — Jim Butcher

My only thought is that I am not going to end up truly dead this time in Raffe's arms. I am not going to be one more wound on his soul. — Susan Ee

If you're a writer, you write. If you don't, you're dead. You have no home, no reason to be offered a seat at any table, and no reason to live. — James Grissom

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart. — Bruce Springsteen

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.. — Janet Morris

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.K. Chesterton

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands. — Munia Khan

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. — William Gibson

With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds. — John H. Walton

Live dead. Alive to Christ, dead to self. — Mark Beeson

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. — Wendell Berry