I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett

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

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides

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

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich Fromm

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

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

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne

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

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

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

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome