Dead People Quotes - Page 4

• I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Cutting, Thinking, Museums

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• And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more

  Arthur Machen

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

  Bruce Sterling

  People, Perspective, Victory

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• People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

  John Avery

  Believe, Thinking, Keys

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• Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that in our song worship, we have to be spiritually alive (dead people don't sing), spiritually assisted (through the enabling of the Holy Spirit), and spiritually active (committed to daily walking with the Lord).

  Keith Getty

  Song, People, Singing

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• Some dead people said smart stuff.

  Bob Saget

  Smart, People, Stuff

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening very slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.

  Louis C. K.

  Caring, Hair, People

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sorry, Sadness, Air

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Thinking, People, Might

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.10, Grove Press

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• She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

  Patricia Briggs

  Uncles, People, Ghost

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.84, Penguin

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• I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon

  Meg Cabot

  Sorry, People, Heathers

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Love You to Death”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Derek Landy

  People, Want, Fields

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• Let’s find someplace where there aren’t any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that’s big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Matter, Rodents

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.964, Macmillan

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• If you don’t live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can’t eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that’s why he don’t let me near them fresh dead. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Doubt, Said

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• I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

  Dean Koontz

  People, Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.34, Bantam

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• No, Simi. No food. (Acheron) No, Simi. No food. The Simi don’t like this, akri. Katoteros is boring. There’s nothing fun there. Only old dead people who want to come back here. Bleh! (Simi) Simi...(Acheron) I hear and obey, akri. The Simi just never said she would do so quietly. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, People, Want

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• Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

  James Ellroy

  People, Claims

  "My Dark Places". Book by James Ellroy, 1996.

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• And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon) I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian) Are you the asshole who sent the 'I See Dead People' T-shirt to me? (Talon) That would be Wulf. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, People, Scary

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• Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.

  Janet Evanovich

  People, Three, Truck

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

  Tennessee Williams

  People, Giving, Advice

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Mistake, People, Perfect

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• She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

  John Green

  People, Dies

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.107, Penguin

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• Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Numbers, People, One Day

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

  Tim Burton

  Dark, People, Creepy

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• There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.

  Trey Anastasio

  Long, People, Trying

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