Dead Man Quotes

• Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Immortality

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

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• For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.155, Oxford University Press

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• You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Loving Life, Men

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• Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Night, Delight

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.615, Pearson Education

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• He who does not move with the times is a dead man

  Vicki Baum

  Moving, Men, Doe

  Vicki Baum (1980). “Grand hotel”

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• The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Eagles

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Forget, Conversation

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• Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

  John Henry Patterson

  Sports, Men, Mind

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• A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Rate, Dies

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• Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

  William Blake

  Baby, Sweet, Night

  The Complete Writings of William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript Auguries of Innocence, l. 119-21

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• The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

  William Blake

  Enemy, Vision, Christ

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (a) l. 1

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• Dead man, dead man
  When will you arise?
  Cobwebs in your mind
  Dust upon your eyes

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Eye, Men

  Song: Dead Man, Dead Man, 1981

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• Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

  Ian Mcewan

  Men, Arguing

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• Speake not of a dead man at the table.

  George Herbert

  Men, Tables

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Real, Men, Play

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 4, Scene 6), April 2, 1948.

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• Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

  Israel Zangwill

  Men, Bulls, Fame

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “Works of Israel Zangwill: Italian fantasies”

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• But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Men, Blood

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• But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

  David Hume

  Country, Men, Miracle

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.123, tredition

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• This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Was using “dead-man’s-toe” morally okay if the man’s relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Toes, Okay

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• Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

  Kami Garcia

  Men, Giving, Care

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• It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men

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• Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

  George Whitefield

  Men, Lifeless, Congregation

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  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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