Best Dead Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“In Old High German and in Old English, geist and gaest did not designate a revenant as geist and ghost do today, and scato, "the shadow, did not apply to phantoms. We can deduce from this that revenants were not evanescent: they were not images or mists, but flesh and blood individuals, which is confirmed by the Norse literature and the rare texts from other Germanic countries.”

“You smell so good,”

“No! no! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been slain by robbers--my body lies at Wurtzburg--at midnight I am to be buried--the grave is waiting for me--I must keep my appointment!”

“Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.”

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.”

“A man without trust might as well be dead.”

“There is something female about being dead.”

“The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.”

“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”

“It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.”

“She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”

“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.”

“When it reached the mirror’s edge, the blood began to drip and the synchronous echo of each drop that hit the white, porcelain sink below almost felt relaxing.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk”

“...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...”

“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”

“Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.”

“when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.”

“The dead are way more organized than the living.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

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“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”

“Sometimes dead is better”

“Some people are right, the others are left.”

“O may I join the choir invisible”