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

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

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Virgil

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

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

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

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
Robert De Niro

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

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

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

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

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
Jeanne Moreau

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer