The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes.

It’s not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor – yet in most companies, it takes only one ‘nyet’ to kill a project stone...

The greatest thing about golf, there’s no end to it unless you’re dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

Don’t play dead with a vulture. That’s exactly what they want.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one...

Don’t worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.

When you feel like there is nothing else matter, you just feel like unable to breath because you finally realise that even the oxygen you’re breathing is polluted.

It’s sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not...

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.

You smell so good,””No, I don’t, I smell like death.””You’re crazy, you’re not dead. You do not smell like death.””I was dead a long time.””And now you’re not. Hence the alive smell.

God is dead!

I was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came…and I was awakened.

I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.

When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it!

,Cómo voy asobrevivir a esta añoranza? ,Cómo lo hacen otros? La gente muereconstantemente. Todos los días. A todas horas. Hay familias por todo elmundo mirando camas donde ya no duerme nadie, zapatos que ya nadie...

I didn’t know what to say to her – I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Metias is gone again. He is always gone.

If you don’t get out of this bar, you are going to be writing your thesis via Ouija board.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself....

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I’m there in my makeup, and that’s getting a little tiring.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At...

We’re all dead…Some of us are just a little further along than others.

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls Neolithic beliefs that certain human remains possessed supernatural properties. It was...

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!

I saw an old guy sleeping, and I thought he was dead. But I kept checking his pockets for money, because it seemed like the right thing to do.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

When I got home, I seemed in a dream. My windows looked upon hers; I remained all the day looking at them, and all the day they were closed and dark. I forgot everything for...

If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

Life is great, and without it, you’d be dead.

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

Stay back,”I warned. “Stay away from him.” They kept coming. “Stay back!” I yelled. They stopped. Except for one. “Rose,” came a soft voice. “Drop the sword.” My hands shook. I swallowed. “Get away from...

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

No! no! My engagement is with no bride–the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man–I have been slain by robbers–my body lies at Wurtzburg–at midnight I am to be buried–the grave is...

Death says a million words that the heart can’t pen.

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.