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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

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. — Taylor Swift

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

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

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead. — Daniel Handler

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue. — Robert J. Sawyer

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

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel. — Jane Addams

There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in. — Donald Trump

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

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — George R R Martin

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

This place is as dead as dice. Nothing safer to rob than a grave, if you can push past the creep factor. — H.L. Burke

I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud. — George Horace Lorimer

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement. — Kurt Cobain

The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives. — Erin McKean

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

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

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

Dywen now, he says we need to learn to ride dead horses, like the Others do. He claims it would save on feed. How much could a dead horse eat? — George R R Martin

I'm in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. — Suzanne Collins

Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then? — W. Somerset Maugham

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. — Charles Dickens

A scarf from her dress works free and floats behind her the way memories float behind the dead. — Milan Kundera

The past is dead except for the life you give it — Myles Munroe

For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now. — Rafael Yglesias

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

He picked some unwise words. Saying, "I'll enjoy killing you for my lord", is just not the way to make my acquaintance. — Charlaine Harris

All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan. — Neal Stephenson

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine. — Thomas Pynchon

The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead. — Steven Moffat

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. — John French Sloan

I read on the Internet that I was dead. — Fiona Apple

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick. — Leon M. Lederman

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it. — Drake

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie De France

How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope. — Pierce Brown

II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. — Vita Sackville-West

I don't care if every one of your marks came back from the dead and are here eating the horsdoeuvres like a club for the tragically murdered. — Erin M. Leaf

I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway. — John C. Dvorak

We die with the dying;
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them. — T. S. Eliot

It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills. — Leslie Meier

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water. — Mark Batterson

CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
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I say the dead are come to slay the living. — Aeschylus

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone. — Vaddey Ratner

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. — Christopher Paolini

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it. — Lil' Wayne

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
[Lat., Noli
Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.] — Juvenal

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I war not with the dead. — Homer

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

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

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

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

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