(1052 quotes found)
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”
William Johnson Cory
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.”
Princess Diana
“Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
George F. Burns
“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.”
Carl Sandburg
“Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead.”
Jon Carroll
“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
Charles Kingsley
“All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of”
William Shakespeare
“It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”
Mark Twain
