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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

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

She'd been shunned by the living and betrayed by the dead. — Lyn Cote

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

The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive — Munia Khan

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

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden

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 way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Nathanael Howe

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

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

And just because he's dead doesn't mean I have to stop living too. — Cecelia Ahern

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

They took hands, the living with the dead, and they began to dance. — Neil Gaiman

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

The Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death. — Neil Gaiman

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

Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn. — Edmund Burke

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

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

There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead. — Gennadiy Aygi

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

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

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

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

-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

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

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living — Confucius

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

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

One must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead. — Irvin D. Yalom

All was forgiven.
All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. — Kurt Vonnegut