He who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand rapt in awe, is
as good as dead; his eyes are
closed.
--Albert Einstein – German
Physicist Born 1879 Died 1955
The fear of death is the most
unjustified of all fears, for
there's no risk of accident for
someone who's dead.
--Albert Einstein – German
Physicist Born 1879 Died 1955
The moment you think you
understand a great work of art,
it's dead for you.
--Oscar Wilde – Irish Dramatist
Born 1854 Died 1900
I want my food dead. Not sick, not
dying, dead.
--Oscar Wilde – Irish Dramatist
Born 1854 Died 1900
Three can keep a secret, if two of
them are dead.
--Benjamin Franklin – American
Politician Born 1706 Died 1790
The earth belongs to the living,
not to the dead.
--Thomas Jefferson – American
President Born 1743 Died 1826
Remembering that I'll be dead soon
is the most important tool I've
ever encountered to help me make
the big choices in life. Because
almost everything - all external
expectations, all pride, all fear
of embarrassment or failure -
these things just fall away in the
face of death, leaving only what
is truly important.
--Steve Jobs – American
Businessman Born 1955 Died 2011
The educated differ from the
uneducated as much as the living
from the dead.
--Aristotle – Greek Philosopher
Born 384 BC Died 322 BC
Rather be dead than cool.
--Kurt Cobain – American Musician
Born 1967 Died 1994
It's funny how most people love
the dead, once you're dead your
made for life.
--Jimi Hendrix – American Musician
Born 1942 Died 1970
I, not events, have the power to
make me happy or unhappy today. I
can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't
arrived yet. I have just one day,
today, and I'm going to be happy
in it.
--Groucho
Marx – American Comedian Born 1895
Died 1977
To the living we owe respect, but
to the dead we owe only the truth.
--Voltaire – French Writer Born
1694 Died 1778
He was a great patriot, a
humanitarian, a loyal friend;
provided, of course, he really is
dead.
--Voltaire – French Writer Born
1694 Died 1778
Only the dead have seen the end of
war.
--Plato – Greek Philosopher Born
427 BC Died 347 BC
I like a man who's good, but not
too good - for the good die young,
and I hate a dead one.
--Mae West – American Actress Born
1893 Died 1980
Either he's dead or my watch has
stopped.
--Groucho Marx – American Comedian
Born 1895 Died 1977
He is dead in this world who has
no belief in another.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –
German Poet Born 1749 Died 1832
Those who hope for no other life
are dead even for this.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –
German Poet Born 1749 Died 1832
Remember, a dead fish can float
downstream, but it takes a live
one to swim upstream.
--W. C. Fields – American Comedian
Born 1880 Died 1946
Our dead are never dead to us,
until we have forgotten them.
--George Eliot – British Author
Born 1819 Died 1880
The foolish and the dead alone
never change their opinions.
--James Russell Lowell – American
Poet Born 1819 Died 1891
I am a real ham. I love an
audience. I work better with an
audience. I am dead, in fact,
without one.
--Lucille Ball – American Comedian
Born 1911 Died 19894
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