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Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

Quotes by Peggy Lipton

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Quotes by Pele

It is dead wrong about necessary surplus of winnings over losings.

Quotes by Paul Samuelson

When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?

Quotes by Paul Haggis

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Quotes by Paul Harvey

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Quotes by Paul Eldridge

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Quotes by Paul Eldridge

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

Quotes by Paul Bremer

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Quotes by Patrick Murray

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an...

Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was...

Quotes by Patrick Duffy

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

If I feel like you've disrespected me, you might as well just be dead to me.

Quotes by Pat McAfee

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

Quotes by Pat Burns

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or...

Quotes by Otto Dix

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Quotes by Origen

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Wanted Dead or Alive' - those are iconic songs.

Quotes by Orianthi

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a motivational quote using "dead" as a warning against stagnation?
Yes - one quote frames staying static as a kind of death: "If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing."
What does the quote about sorrow and the dead say?
One quote reflects that "The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind" - suggesting grief can have a positive, clarifying effect over time.
Is there a quote about grief being a wound we choose to keep open?
Yes, in a similar reflective vein: one quote describes sorrow for the dead as unique among sorrows, one we "refuse to be divorced" from, unlike other wounds we might "seek to heal" or eventually forget.
Is there a short, well-known quote using "dead" in a lighthearted way?
Yes: "I'll sleep when I'm dead" - a common expression about pushing through and living life fully now.
Where can I find more quotes on related themes of loss?
See our Death quotes page, or if you want something more specific, our Dead End quotes collection.

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