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Being dead is being weak and walled off.

Quotes by Richard McKenna

Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars, including one that didn't have to do with Al Qaeda? Probably not.

Quotes by Richard Engel

I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

Quotes by Richard Briers

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.

Quotes by Rich Sommer

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

Quotes by Rhys Ifans

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

Quotes by Ricardo Lagos

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

Quotes by Rashid Johnson

If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

Quotes by Randy Weber

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

A vicuna alive is worth more than one dead. Now it is like a goldmine.

Quotes by Pier Luigi Loro Piana

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the...

Quotes by Philip Gibbs

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

Quotes by Phil Ochs

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

Quotes by Phil Lesh

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

Quotes by Peter T. King

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

Quotes by Peter Max

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

Quotes by Peter Abrahams

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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