If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Sophocles

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
Jello Biafra

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
Jello Biafra

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
Jello Biafra

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
E. M. Forster

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
Michael Pollan

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
Woody Guthrie

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
Camille Paglia

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
Stephen Ambrose

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.
Evelyn Waugh

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
John Acton

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
Helena Bonham Carter