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He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. — Stephen Crane

The empty husks of the dead have arisen,and the crave the flesh of the living — Shake-O

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

Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead — Giorgio Bassani

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

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens. — Salman Rushdie

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

We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The dead tread softly ... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly. — C.M. Palov

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both. — John Hall Wheelock

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

And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead — Rick Yancey

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril — Niall Ferguson

I was generally in favor of segregation of the dead and the living. — Eileen Cook

life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity. — John Turner

Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.
I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. — Renee Ruin

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. — Elie Wiesel

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you? — Barry Lopez

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

ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes. — Visar Zhiti

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go. — Larry Kramer

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

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy

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

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

The dead are silenced and the living are speechless.Who's going to tell their stories if I don't? — Gillian Rubinstein

It becomes a game, whispered and breathless.
"I hide who I am."
"I fight with the dead."
"I lie to the living."
"I am alone. — Victoria Schwab

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

Life for the living, and rest for the dead! — George Arnold

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. — Dean Koontz

the dead never stop talking and sometimes the living hear. — Marlon James

Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead. — Lawren Leo

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. — William Morris

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When is death not within ourselves? ... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old. — Heraclitus

The dead have their reward, Vosch says. It is the living - you and I - who still have work to do — Rick Yancey

Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next.
- Samuel Reed — Rodman Philbrick

All those mounted heads in the living room," said Jane. "And he ends up hanging, like some dead animal. I'd say we've got a theme going here. — Tess Gerritsen

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — J.K. Rowling

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

Death changes things. It changes how we think about people; it changes the living and it changes the dead. — Martin Sixsmith

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

The order that wants the dead where they should be among the dead, and the living among the living — Jose Saramago

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. — Charles Dickens

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

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The living and dead world are separated by breath. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. — Ricardo Lagos

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

-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love ... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man. — Edith Sitwell

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

There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away. — Wes Adamson

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Need for a "speaker for the dead" and for the living. — Orson Scott Card

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life. — Francis Marion Crawford

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

Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection. — Joy Williams

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P.D. James

For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living. — Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

We do it for the fun and the fact it makes us feel closer to loved ones both living and dead. — Robert Tinnell

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. — Marisha Pessl

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

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

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

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

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ... — Peter Heller

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'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

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

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead ... because they are dead. — Epicurus

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

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead. — Mark Twain

The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living — Ted Hughes

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living. — Oriana Fallaci

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

Walk,' was my answer, 'I definitely must, to invigorate myself and to maintain contact with the living world ... Without walking, I would be dead. — Robert Walser

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida

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

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

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

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

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

Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability. — Anthony Loyd

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