Dead - Quotes
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born.
In wars, no one wins, everyone loses. There are no heroes, there`s only dead people.
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.
A terminal cancer patient`s unbearable pain is pointless; it`s as if one were to drive the dead to the cemetery in an ambulance with flashing lights and screaming sirens. Pain makes sense only as long as recovery is possible.
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I`m dead.
The one thing that every one of our ancestors back to single cell sludge had in common was they reproduced and their offspring reproduced. If an organism failed to reproduce, that organism was a dead end, not an ancestor. The love that I feel for my children is different from the love I have for the cute things they say that get quoted by my wife on Twitter and the fun I have with them. It`s different from the hugs and the kisses they give. The real love is a biological urge. Love that is like breathing.
Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.
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.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn`t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I`m going to be happy in it.
The Past is all holy to us; the Dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive.
If you want to know what a dead man`s relatives really think of him, a good rough test is the weight of his tombstone.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason [...] is like giving medicine to the dead.
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.