Dead Quotes
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
Arthur Balfour
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Florence Nightingale
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions
Oscar Wilde
I believe in Jesus An' what the Bible said An' I am fairly certain He had himself a heavy head. He scared the lyin' people So bad, they hung him dead An' they never even listened To what he really said.
Hoyt Wayne Axton
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"
Benjamin Franklin
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Holy shadows of the dead, Im not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.
Alexander III
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James Baldwin
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
Henry Louis Mencken
