Sacred Idea

“Any idea too sacred to be challenged is already dead.”
--Bryan Johnson

Do Not Fear Death

“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.”
--Mark Twain

A Kingdom Destroyed

“A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
--Sun Tzu

Before You Are Dead

“Don't die before you're dead.”
--Rachel Wolchin

Dead and Stupid

“When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid.”
--Philippe Geluck

End of War

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
--George Santayana

Between Living and Dead

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
--Thornton Wilder

When It Is Over

“When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower.”
--Unknown

 

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Be Dead

“If you quit, you might as well be dead.”
--Bruce Lee

Win Any Battle

“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Long Time Dead

“Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.”
--Scottish Proverb

Fear's Death

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good as Dead

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
--Albert Einstein

Honors

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
--Mignon McLaughlin

Greatness Never Dies

“The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.”
--Jules Renard

A Dead Thing

“The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.”
--Thomas Aquinas

Pointless Argument

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
--Thomas Paine

A Worthwhile Man

“Tis easy enough to be pleasant when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox