Dead Quotes

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged - though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.