Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain

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

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

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

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 don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Samuel Goldwyn

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
Jerry Garcia

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns