(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.) You do not immortalize the lost by writing about...

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean...

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

Being certain one is alive isn’t something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

The mist enveloped her form. She was lifted into it, then instantly dropped. Swiftly, the mist retreated to the window.It was gone. The old woman lay flat on her back, eyes open and staring; her...

Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, – Mais pas l’espoir !)

Take care of your dog because a dead dog is NOT a fun companion!

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us the Poise to hold on. When we come across failure, He installs back...

Not everyone who died had left a “memory” and not everyone who had left a memory had left a “blessed” one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged “…of a blessed memory

Y hay que ver, esos libros sobre el duelo son unamierda, todos iguales, una porquería total al cien por cien.

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back...

If Metias joined the Patriots, he’d be a Hacker too. If he were alive.

Don’t be decieved by your mortality, you’re just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.

There’s nothing glamorous about being dead.

Một người này có thể sống trong ký ức của một người kia, không chỉ hình ảnh mà cả tiếng nói lẫn thái độ.Bạn đã bao giờ bắt gặp những cuộc trò chuyện trong t...

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

Is it true, then, Mayor?” Grandmother Miss Lacy Thornton warbled from the end of the counter. “Is Jesse Tatum officially dead?””Dead is such an unflattering term,” he said, sliding onto his stool. “I prefer to...

I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore. So I gather rocks, one by one,...

[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a...

Even the Dead Hunger for Life.

Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn’t there? I’m going to kill him. He’s already dead, Simon observed....

The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder....

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Going down my list of notable women in my life, we come to Y. Y for Yolanda, and as you might have prophetically foretold, we met at the Y (YMCA). She looked like a beaver,...

She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past… Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But...

Great; I get to be told I am dead all over again. -Stomfur

For me, the past is dead. Can’t go back.

The 1910 Edison film of ‘Frankenstein’ was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.

I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin… and I too, of course can no longer live. But...

You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.

I’m not a bad person.

The scariest thing about death is not dying, it’s the uncertainty of what happens after

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable – say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls – I wouldn’t go there. An ‘idea,’ especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be...

I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I’m kind of joking, but I’m not confident that wouldn’t happen.

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots… It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that… I feel like that’s dead.