The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
Jimi Hendrix

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
Steven Wright

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West