The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
Robert Mugabe

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
Layne Staley

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Robin Williams

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller