How To Be Dead Quotes

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

Hallucination is a raw climb to a dead end.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

The only consistent people are the dead

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very tired.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Dolls are like small dead people.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Sometimes dead is better

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

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

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn’t understand tea at all.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.