DEAD in Classic Quotes

1  She's gone now, I think, dead.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

2  A friend of mine's already dead.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

3  We went right on insulting the dead.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

4  I've never known any dead man killed in a war.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

5  For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  "Hello," whispered Montag, fascinated as always with the dead beast, the living beast.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

9  There's Beatty dead, and he was my friend once, and there's Millie gone, I thought she was my wife, but now I don't know.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

10  Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale-green luminosity.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

11  Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

12  He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

13  Montag did not hear, he was far away, he was running with his mind, he was gone, leaving this dead soot-covered body to sway in front of another raving fool.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

14  Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

15  The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  Now as the vacuum-underground rushed him through the dead cellars of town, jolting him, he remembered the terrible logic of that sieve, and he looked down and saw that he was carrying the Bible open.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

17  He felt so suddenly shocked by this that he felt Faber was really dead, baked like a roach in that small green capsule shoved and lost in the pocket of a man who was now nothing but a frame skeleton strung with asphalt tendons.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright