Dead

"It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest."

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

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

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

"Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

"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."

"The dead should not rule the living."