Dead People Quotes
Reflective lines on legacy, memory, and lasting reputation
This page gathers quotes about dead people, often reflecting on how reputations settle and how the past continues to teach the living. For more, see our dead quotes collection.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
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Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.
' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't...
Certified Quotes
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always...
I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.
One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
Daily Quotes
I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts...
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Other lines take a lighter or more curious turn, from reading older writers to imagining stories about bringing the departed back to life. Also browse our daily quotes page.
