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See this Swiss army knife, Lawless! It's gotta magnifying glass and a million blades but I only need one, so step right the fuck back! — Jonathan Dunne

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm dead, but I can't stop living. — Lauren Oliver

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt

The spirits of the dead are all around us, but it is we, the living, that are the true hungry ghosts. — John Dolan

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't. — Neil Gaiman

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it," said G. K. Chesterton. That — Rod Dreher

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead. — Sophocles

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — G.K. Chesterton

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living. — Haruki Murakami

The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years - but the dead move in with us to stay. — Garrison Keillor

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

(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 man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead. — Sophocles

The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them? — James Aquilone

She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead. — Octavia E. Butler

When was it all right to let go not only of the dead but of the living - to learn to accept? — Alice Sebold

The dead don't care what you say, but maybe the words you speak at a graveside aren't for the dead at all. Maybe those words are for the living. — Scott Sigler

What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age? — Justin Cronin

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. — Mary Mapes Dodge

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. — Voltaire

It is not the dead who are to be feared, I thought, but rather the living. Only the living can cast you down among the dead. — Alan Bradley

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney) — Alane Ferguson

I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead — Daphne Du Maurier

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind. — Epictetus

I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist. — Isaac Marion

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. — Thomas Hobbes

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

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. — Ludwig Tieck

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

The dead once lived but the living have not yet died... — Daniel Waters

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead. — Woodrow Wilson

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. — John Webster

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both. — Robert Jordan

What an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave. — Sharon Kay Penman

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born. — Edmund Burke

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist. — Isaac Marion

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

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

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

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

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

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

To the living we owe our respect, but to the dead we own only the truth. — Voltaire

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

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk. — Margot Asquith

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

Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones — Ann Jones

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

We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can't feed the living. — James Jean-Pierre

Am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? 27He is not God of the dead, but of the living. — Anonymous

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

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

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. — Rabindranath Tagore

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living. — Honore De Balzac

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

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living. — Errol Flynn

Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living. — Tara Hudson

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

We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves. — Clive Barker

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living. — Kathy Reichs

He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed — Matt Hilton