„Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.“

„The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.“

—  Cyril Connolly British author 1903 - 1974

Edward Thomas, "Early One Morning" from Poems (1917) http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/thomas04.html#five
Misattributed

„The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.“

—  T.C. Boyle American novelist and short story writer 1948

Acts of God (1989)

„I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.“

—  Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

„Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive or be he dead
I'll have his bones to grind my bread.“

—  Joseph Jacobs, kniha English Fairy Tales

said by the ogre or giant. Now rendered as I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

„The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha The Lightning Thief

Zdroj: The Lightning Thief

„The lucky ones are just born dead.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Choke

Zdroj: Choke

„This was a thing she’d not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal’s secret body just to eat it.“

—  Nalo Hopkinson, kniha Midnight Robber

Section 2 (p. 104)
Midnight Robber (2000)

„It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.“

—  Sharon Creech American writer of children's novels 1945

„You just don’t expect to meet dead people.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Invisible Monsters

Invisible Monsters

„He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha The Battle of the Labyrinth

Varianta: He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
Zdroj: The Battle of the Labyrinth

„God isn't dead — he's just missing in action.“

—  Phil Ochs American protest singer and songwriter 1940 - 1976

Zdroj: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes

„Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.”

“He’s not dead; just very tired.“

—  Libba Bray, kniha The Diviners

Zdroj: The Diviners

„The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.“

—  Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011

As quoted in Playboy (February 1985)
1980s

„Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.“

—  Margaret Atwood, kniha Alias Grace

Zdroj: Alias Grace

„Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.“

—  P. J. O'Rourke American journalist 1947

The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)

„Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.“

—  Kathy Reichs, Virals

Zdroj: Virals

„I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Ashes

Zdroj: City of Ashes

„The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!“

—  Chadwick Boseman American actor 1976 - 2020

Zdroj: GQ Roundtable (2014)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Chadwick Boseman / Quotes / GQ Roundtable (2014)

„I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?“

—  Charles Bukowski, kniha Pulp

Zdroj: Pulp