You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.
A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
Dead men never pick up their trophies.
Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
But what if. . . what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.
The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.
Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
The Dead travel fast.
There are two kinds of pedestrians. . . the quick and the dead.
It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.