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Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.
— Edward Caswall
Miracles don't exist. There is cause and effect, dreams and reality. Living and Dead. Your hope is absurd. Your romanticism, embarrassing
— Isaac Marion
A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
— Ivan Albright
The dead are not separate from the living
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other — W.S. Merwin
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other — W.S. Merwin
It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.
— John Hall Wheelock
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.
— Kemi Sogunle
The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.
— Laurie R. King
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
— Benjamin E. Mays
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
— T. S. Eliot
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn't is like the living and the dead.
— Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
— James Madison
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
— Pablo Picasso
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
— Eugene Ionesco
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. And
— William Faulkner
You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
— Robin Williams
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
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.
— Marisha Pessl
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
— Xenophon
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
— John Owen
Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.
— George Mackay Brown
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Living Word. God's word is not a dead letter. The life of His nature in His word also makes me live when I receive it and act on it with faith.
— Louis McCall
We are what stands between the living and the dead. Being an Undertaker is an honor, son.
— Melissa Marr
I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?
— Charles Bukowski
Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.
— Joy Williams
The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
— Serj Tankian
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
— Karl Marx
It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?
— Lee Battersby
Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.
— Marlon James
Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.
— Anthony Loyd
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
— Thomas Lynch
The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
the difference between the living and the dead. The living run away when you shoot at them.
— Iain Rob Wright
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
— Leo Tolstoy
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
— William Faulkner
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
— William Wordsworth
I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.
— William Wordsworth
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
— P.D. James
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
— Samuel Johnson
For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.
— Joseph Conrad
The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...
— Peter Heller
The dead can't love the living but the living can love the dead, and that was the greatest tragedy of her life. "You
— Tiffany Reisz
And the living prayed to their gods and begged for rescue from the armies of the dead, and there was no answer. For there are no gods.
— Stacia Kane
I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'
— Jeff Dunham
Yesterday is dead, today is living, and tomorrow is in the womb.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
— Dean Koontz
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
— Myrtle Reed
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes
The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
the dead never stop talking and sometimes the living hear.
— Marlon James
The dead have their reward, Vosch says. It is the living - you and I - who still have work to do
— Rick Yancey
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.
— Toni Morrison
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
— Ivan Klima
The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.
-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin
-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin
There are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live.
— Patricia Storace
Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone.
— Homer
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
— Roger Scruton
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
— Charles Caleb Colton
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one..
— Janet Morris
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
— Henry Miller
I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living
but not for my 5 cats — Charles Bukowski
but not for my 5 cats — Charles Bukowski
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
— Isaac Marion
The juncture of the living and the dead was a maelstrom of power, an enduring battlefield, barring all manner of life. The
— Gary Alan Wassner
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
— Plato
Death is powerful. No one is immune. And it's the living who must make their peace with it, because the dead don't give a shit.
— Liliana Hart
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
— Carl Sandburg
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
— Tim O'Brien
Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead ... because they are dead.
— Epicurus
I'd always thought there was a great divide between a spirit and a ghost- I just didn't realize how small the gap was between the dead and the living
— Jodi Picoult
For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.
— Bruce Lee
Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome.
— Carla H. Krueger
We do it for the fun and the fact it makes us feel closer to loved ones both living and dead.
— Robert Tinnell
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
— Richard Gilman
Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to a dead man.
— Raven
I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.
— Elizabeth Scott
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
— William Bradford