Dead Quotes

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.

People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.

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

The only good human being is a dead one.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.