I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

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

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung