For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles

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

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel Gompers

Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.
Jack Herer

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
Courtney Love

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
Jack Herer

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.
Jack Herer

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

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon

If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.
Lindsay Lohan

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell

God is not a dead equation!
Muhammad Iqbal

Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.
Tracey Ullman

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey