One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.
Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.
There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.
Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.
The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?
A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.