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I had a dream. I dreamed I was on this island, and there were two hotels, and one hotel was filled with dead people, and the other one wasn't, and I was in the hotel full of dead people.

Quotes by Frank Dillane

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Quotes by Franjo Tudjman

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Quotes by Flip Wilson

I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'

Quotes by Finn Wolfhard

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

Quotes by Fiona Apple

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

Quotes by Felix Baumgartner

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

Quotes by Federico Garcia Lorca

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Quotes by Evan Dando

Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.

Quotes by Evan Osnos

I actually watch 'The Walking Dead.' I like 'The Walking Dead' a lot.

Quotes by Evan Peters

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Quotes by Eugene Kennedy

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality,...

Quotes by Ernst Toller

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

Quotes by Ernst Toller

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Quotes by Ernestine Rose

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

Quotes by Erik Larson

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Quotes by Erica Jong

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Quotes by Erich Fromm

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

Quotes by Erich von Stroheim

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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