Quotes about Being Dead

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. Votes: 4

There's nothing glamorous about being dead. Votes: 4

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. Votes: 4

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life. Votes: 4

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. Votes: 4

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. Votes: 4

What's so noble about being dead? Votes: 3

For it must be very lonely being dead. Votes: 3

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead. Votes: 3

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead. Votes: 3

I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new. Votes: 3

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive? Votes: 3

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead. Votes: 3

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood. Votes: 3

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead. Votes: 3

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead. Votes: 3

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. Votes: 3

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind Votes: 3

Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead," Ronan replied. Votes: 3

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. Votes: 3

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead. Votes: 3

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him. Votes: 3

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Votes: 3

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead! Votes: 3

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day? Votes: 3

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Votes: 3

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this. Votes: 3

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead. Votes: 3

I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness. Votes: 3

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Votes: 3

Leaving the person I love in danger and continuing to live on is the same as being dead.-Hyuga, Natsume Votes: 3

Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot. Votes: 3

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. Votes: 3

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. Votes: 3

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? Votes: 3

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing. Votes: 3

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. Votes: 3

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit. Votes: 3

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead! Votes: 3

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive. Votes: 3

I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth? Votes: 3

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image. Votes: 3

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead. Votes: 3

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing. Votes: 3

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful. Votes: 3

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead? Votes: 3

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death. Votes: 3

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger. Votes: 3

They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.' Votes: 3

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate. Votes: 3

The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead' Votes: 3

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead. Votes: 3

Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity. Votes: 3

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. Votes: 3

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go. Votes: 3

I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay. Votes: 3

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive. Votes: 3

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened. Votes: 3

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. Votes: 3

It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable. Votes: 3

The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead. Votes: 3

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead. Votes: 3

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin. Votes: 3

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him. Votes: 3

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises. Votes: 3

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. Votes: 3

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? Votes: 3

Being dead is being weak and walled off. Votes: 2

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy. Votes: 2

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. Votes: 2

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens. Votes: 2

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. Votes: 2

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. Votes: 2

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. Votes: 2

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead. Votes: 2

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. Votes: 2

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Votes: 2

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me. Votes: 2

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. Votes: 2

When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important. Votes: 2

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand. Votes: 2

Being Dead means very light housekeeping Votes: 0

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy. Votes: 0

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil... Votes: 0

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. Votes: 0

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another. Votes: 0

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic. Votes: 0

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep. Votes: 0

I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay. Votes: 0

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet. Votes: 0

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead! Votes: 0

Life is fun. celebrate. If you aren't being kicked, the world probably thinks you are dead anyways. Votes: 0

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at Votes: 0

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose. Votes: 0

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school. Votes: 0

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive. Votes: 0

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade. Votes: 0

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Votes: 0

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. Votes: 0

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky. Votes: 0

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician. Votes: 0

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. Votes: 0

What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead oneGeordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption Votes: 0

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. Votes: 0

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. Votes: 0

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was. Votes: 0

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. Votes: 0

I loved killing zombies in 'Day of the Dead.' I basically welcome anything that involves being dirty or bloody or shooting guns. Votes: 0

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term. Votes: 0

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Votes: 0

You're being remanded into Gourish custody"dead. (a Partini) "˜Cause let's face it, dead was just easier. Or so they thought.' (Syn) Votes: 0

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say? Votes: 0

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large. Votes: 0

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. Votes: 0

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Votes: 0

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be. Votes: 0

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’. Votes: 0

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead. Votes: 0

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time. Votes: 0

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless Votes: 0

My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. Votes: 0

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son. Votes: 0

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive. Votes: 0

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes Votes: 0

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not. Votes: 0

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. Votes: 0

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that. Votes: 0

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people. Votes: 0

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. Votes: 0

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. Votes: 0

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind. Votes: 0

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person. Votes: 0

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime. Votes: 0

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. Votes: 0

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it. Votes: 0

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are. Votes: 0

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men. Votes: 0

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT ... Votes: 0