331 quotes found
“Its not that Ive faked my own death as the saying goes. Maybe its that Ive faked my own life, and in doing so Ive yet to realize how dead I really am.”
“Drink the suns warmth and the moons icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.”
“I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.”
“There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. B...”
“Its why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldnt have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.”
“In all of your living dont forget to live.”
“I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. Its the living. Those of us left behind.”
“Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.”
“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.”
“It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it.”
“I like in my free time to walk.”
“Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead.”
“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.”
“And it occurs to me that theres no real difference between us, the living and the dead; its just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead”
“When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead”
“A living dog is better than a dead lion”
“The world screams, Stay down, its safer. My soul screams, So is being dead.”
“The tree is a mediator between the living and dead. Where a limb is malformed, where her branches twist and wave into one another, or where a wound on bark remains unhealed, all these imperfections...”
“(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.) You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buri...”
“So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!”
