Dead Quotes - Page 2

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

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.

That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.

Sometimes dead is better

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

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.

You can’t get the blood out.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.

Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.

Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their lives to be His ambassador. You're His megaphone, through which He wants to call out to them to come to Him and be saved.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.