Dead Man Quotes - Page 4

• Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak or walk: but, in virtue of the promise, the Spirit of life from Christ Jesus, at the time appointed, enters into the dead soul, and quickens it; so that it is no more morally dead, but alive, having new spiritual powers put into it, that were lost by Adam's fall.

  Thomas Boston

  Spiritual, Jesus, Lying

  Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.151

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• Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Morning, Men, Law

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• It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Hands

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• If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Good Man, Ifs

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• Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

  Arya

  Men

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• Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Men, Dying

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.48, Thomas Nelson

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• Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

  Nick Nolte

  Men, Likes, Resistance

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• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Eye, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237

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• The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Forests, Nasty

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.13, Modern Library

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• The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

  John Ortberg

  Lying, Son, Sunday

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• And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  War, Men, Two

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• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Strong, War, Teaching

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

  Ellen Terry

  Men, Theater

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Soldier

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• You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Wish

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.106

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• I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Memories, Confused, School

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• There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Night, Men

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• Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Sleep, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.71

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• A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Memories, Angel, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (1892). “Joan of Arc: And Other Selections from Thomas De Quincey. Joan of Arc. The English mail coach (abridged).. Levana and our ladies of sorrow. Dinner, real and reputed (abridged).. I.. II.. III.. IV.”

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• The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Ocean, Men, Bones

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• The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

  Irvine Welsh

  Princess, Men, Ghouls

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

  Socrates

  Wise, Men, Grieving

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• Dead men would start and move
  toward me to learn of love.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Moving, Men

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.340, New Directions Publishing

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• I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Crazy, Fighting

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• Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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