The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
Ken Kesey

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
Ken Kesey

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

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

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville

VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really.
Saadi

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Jules Renard

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Steven Biko

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
Billie Joe Armstrong

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs

A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel de Cervantes

I read on the Internet that I was dead.
Fiona Apple

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler