He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around himto claim him; it isthe fearof thepre- eminently solitary child and solitary man.

-Ackroyd, Peter
  Of Charles Dickens. Dickens, prologue.

Here's tae us; wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a'deid.

-Anonymous
c  Scottish toast of uncertain origin.'Damn'and other variations are sometimes substituted for 'gey'.

   Culture is dead, now let us start creating.

-Anonymous
  Graffito by Parisian students on the School of  Architecture walls, May.

The President is a walking dead man. He just doesn't know it yet.

-Anonymous
  Senior legislator on President Clinton's political future as he entered the second half of his term of office. In Nightline, ABC  T V broadcast, 6 Dec.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.85^8.

Wemet†Dr Hall insuchverydeep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

-Austen,Jane
  Letter to Cassandra  Austen,17 May.

'Yestreen I dreamed a dolefu'dream; I ken'd here wad be sorrow! I dreamed I pu'd the heather green, On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.' She gaed up yon high, high hillö I wat she gaed wi'sorrowö An' in the den spied nine dead men, On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.

-Ballads
'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

Every time a child says'I don't believe in fairies'there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  Peter Pan (published1928), act1.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  'On His Books'.

As a rule Corde avoided cemeteries and never went near thegravesof hisparents.Hesaidit wasjustaseasy for your dead tovisit you, only by now he would haveto hire a hall.

-Bellow, Saul
  The Dean's December, ch.15.

What I like about Clive Is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said For being dead.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  Biography for Beginners,'Clive'.

Oh! Chintzy, chintzy cheeriness, Half dead and half alive.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  'Death in Leamington', first published in the London Mercury.

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there wasnot a house wherethere wasnot one dead.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus12:30.

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said,We be all dead men.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus12:33.

And Samson said,Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slewat his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges16:30.

Wherefore I praise the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 4:2.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog isbetter thana dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:4^5.

But Jesussaid untohim,Followme; and letthe dead bury their dead.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 8:22.

Heal the sick, cleansethe lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:8.

Jesus answered and said unto them,Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew11:4^5.