Dead

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."

"For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."

"The dead should not rule the living."

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

"Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry."

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse."

"I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."