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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. — Davy Crockett

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

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Being dead is a bit like ... living in Bournemouth. — Kirkland Ciccone

I stepped into the shadows, telling myself not to be afraid. Yet I knew I would either find something worth living for or I would stay dead. — Zachary Koukol

Enough regret can crush any man, living or dead. — Marlo Berliner

A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. — Nixon Waterman

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living. — Khalil Gibran

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — George R R Martin

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. — William Hazlitt

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead. — Graham Joyce

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. — T. S. Eliot

Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection. — Teju Cole

You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living. — Boyd K. Packer

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. — Tony Parsons

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth. — Rick Riordan

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead. — Cassandra Clare

Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead. — Rebecca McNutt

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. — Ovid

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

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

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life. — Jaggi Vasudev

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead. — Ana Monnar

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Early to rise,
early to bed.
A proverb worth following
until one is dead. — Ashwin Sanghi

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. — Frank Wedekind

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die. — Howard Zinn

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they're for the uncommitted. — Bill Murray

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. — John Fowles

The mourner does not pity the dead . He pities himself for having lost the living . — Walter M. Miller Jr.

The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot. — George R R Martin

A person who does not do anything for the fulfilment of his goal and mission on earth is a "living dead — Sunday Adelaja

I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living
but not for my 5 cats — Charles Bukowski

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. — Xenophon

The dead were not so scary. The living were the ones you had to watch out for. — Laura Thalassa

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes

Monuments are for the living, not for the dead. — Frank Wedekind

Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory. — Amit Kalantri

Yesterday belongs to the dead. Tomorrow belongs to the living. — Madlib

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. — Wendell Berry

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

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart. — Bruce Springsteen

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. — Jim Butcher

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

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead. — Roger Scruton

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living — Mother Jones

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone. — Vaddey Ratner

CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living. — Aeschylus

There are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live. — Patricia Storace

Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead. — Kate Atkinson

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith

I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not. — Elizabeth Scott

The king dead is a living god. — Julian Jaynes

Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color.
Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend. — Charlaine Harris

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin

No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture. — Christopher Moore

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait. — Primo Levi

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. — Plautus

there's nothing scary about dead people. It is the living who terrify. — Samantha Hunt

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

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

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. — Andrew Murray

Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living. — Fanny Fern

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead. — Henry David Thoreau