Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
H. P. Blavatsky

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck

Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
Marlon Brando

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Puff Daddy

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
John L. Lewis

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott

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

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan

For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
Rutherford B. Hayes