Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they’re still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in...

Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of...

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected...

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us...

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I’d had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead....

The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing “alive and kicking” dreams.

You’ll know the economy is dead when industry stops and escalators turn into stairs. That’ll be the day slinkies take over the world.

Grave is a journey not a destination

March 1898What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low quarter of some Barcelona or Marseille. The streets were noisome, with their freshly-heaped piles...

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 – of old age.

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein’s monster,...

When I was cast for ‘Walking Dead,’ I was still doing ‘Lone Ranger,’ so I have my ‘Lone Ranger’ look with the handlebar mustache. I think everybody appreciates the professional mustache.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings…but there’s something dead about it,...

‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

I don’t want to see no dead body. Willie ain’t in there. She put her walkin’ shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.

The dead aren’t scary. They are just sad.

He’s looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won’t look at me...

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

I don’t see the point in worrying now that I a half-dead and not when I was okay.

Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.

Mother is dead.

There’s a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There’ll be a click to tell you it’s done.””Sounds easy enough.””Yes it does,” said Sanguine....

I’d be willing to walk around wearing clothes from the 1930s, telling everyone I am a time traveler. You’ve got to do more than dig if you want to earn the love of a dead...

The day is won […] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

I love ‘True Blood.’ I love ‘The Walking Dead.’ Those are fantastic series.

Only the dead, can speak about their world.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘… Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

But tears don’t bring back the dead. I learned that.

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

Most artists weren’t famous until they died (mostly because once they’d died they couldn’t create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

A child is not an adult, a child didn’t ask to be here. Any man that doesn’t take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling...

The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.

Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder...

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was – or, technically, had been – a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of...

I saw you dead.

The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts – Est bien un bon remords)

Life is but a dream for the dead.

On the king’s gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call’d him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father’s stead.

late” so and so. I’m sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn’t just late—they’re not even coming!

I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.

Thank you, Dr. Phil, for that fine psychological assessment,” I snapped and motioned my chin to Disco. “Why don’t you and Oprah here go take a long walk off a short plank and do the...