"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

Death, Future, Truth, Power, Happiness

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Death, War

"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Death, Humor, End, Life

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Death, Man

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Death, Life, Day, Sleep

"In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Death, Isolation, Life, Truth

"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Death, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Death,

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Death, Amusement, Race

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Death, Health, Life, State

"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Death, Hardship, Existence, Endurance

Explore more quotes by Stephen King

"The last good time always comes."

Life

"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."

Wisdom

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."

Wisdom

"He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain."

Life

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

Success

"He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuff. According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost, and that was just the beginning. You could tell the Bible believed in demons, because Jesus threw a bunch of them out of this guy. Real chuckalicious ones, too. When Jesus asked the guy who had them what his name was, the demons answered and told Him to go join the Foreign Legion. Or something like that."

Religion

"Go with your bad self."

Life

"It's a hard life if you don't weaken."

Life

"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

Fiction

"Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any."

Confidence