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

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats

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

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas Adams

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
Barry Goldwater

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Brian Clough

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
William Bernbach

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
George Harrison

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Thomas Szasz

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Morihei Ueshiba

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry Miller