Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
“I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.”
To be dead and to eat at the same time.
Praised be I, writing, dead already and dead again.
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
I’m afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it.
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.
I'm old, not dead.
Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.