When Im Dead Quotes & Sayings

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story. — Ann Turner

I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, or really its dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. Im really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavour. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so its not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today. — Bobby Fischer

Don't bury me but instead use me as fertilizer to grow a tree..I can prove to you im useful both alive and dead — Me

An' Grandpa didn' die tonight. He died the minute you took 'im off the place.
You sure a that? Pa cried
Why, no. Oh he was breathin', Casy went on, but he was dead. He was that place, an' he knowed it. — John Steinbeck

Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; it is at best an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a moral duty? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh yeah? Go fuck yourself.
He hung up.
I called back ten minutes later, thinking it was an appropriate amount of time to have gone and fucked oneself. — Charlie LeDuff

Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, dont wait until later to live the way you were created. God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Dont sleep on that. Lastly, rise above the low expectations people have. — Trip Lee

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. — Brad Warner

Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet. — Walter Moers

Even in death may you be triumphant. — Darren Shan

I sense a deep despair inside this boy that must be hard to live with. — Marianne Curley

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up? — Ken Burns

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when
I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then
my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd — William Blake

A penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening — The Band Perry

And jazz is like a bird who migrates or emigrates or immigrates or transmigrates, roadblock jumper, smuggler, something that runs and mixes in — Julio Cortazar

I ain't sleepin'. I got too much to puzzle with. — John Steinbeck

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. — Patrick MacGill

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. — Terry Eagleton

Mourning for the living cuz im so damn jealous of the dead. — Cecilia

Alek: "Am I that obvious?"
Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever. — Scott Westerfeld