Dead Quotes

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

Alive, While, Flowers

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
Richard Pryor

Life, God, Movies

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
Lady Gaga

Hope, Though, Icon

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

Brain, Pretend, Tiny

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Aeschylus

Living, Rather, Mourn

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
David Lynch

True, Ideas, Dictate

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
Omar N. Bradley

Fail, Guilt, Share

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

While, Clothes, Grave

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

Often, Turn, Lead

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Jean Cocteau

Great, Sad, Tell

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
Helen Rowland

Men, Two, Kinds

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
Jello Biafra

Die, Punk, Mass

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Show, Gone

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
Demetri Martin

Person, Grateful, Average

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!
Alanis Morissette

Writing, Until, Whether

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield

Life, Music, Rather

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
Hedy Lamarr

Time, Person, After

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.
Bill Maher

Good, Dark, Kids

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
Elie Wiesel

Dreams, May, Speak

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon

Living, Madness, Grief

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
Emile M. Cioran

Life, Done, Living

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Soul, Body, Coffin

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Jeff Bridges

Time, Good, Best

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

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Black Elk

Happy, Except, Lying

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy

Life, Friendly, Another

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus

Good, Evil, Word

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett

End, Long, Words

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
Bill Watterson

Another, Along, Five

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
Lil Wayne

Read, Reading, Weird

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