Top 100 The Living Dead Quotes
#2. The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
Sandra Cisneros
#3. The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#4. Only the dead do not need wisdom; none who are living can survive without it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#5. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton
#6. There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
Stephen Hawking
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains
Kami Garcia
#10. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.
Visar Zhiti
#12. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
Og Mandino
#13. In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation of the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.
Astley Cooper
#14. 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
#16. I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!
Charles Dickens
#18. Don't you love fall?" Stacey asked. "All the little festivals, the changing leaves, kids in Halloween costumes, the dead spewing up out of their graves to haunt the living ...
J.L. Bryan
#19. Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
James Branch Cabell
#20. The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#21. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
Aldous Huxley
#22. 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
#23. The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#24. Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish ...
C.J. Cherryh
#25. Not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!
Kerry Greenwood
#26. We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can't feed the living.
James Jean-Pierre
#27. 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
#28. The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years - but the dead move in with us to stay.
Garrison Keillor
#29. Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system
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#30. I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.
David Sedaris
#31. I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
Ali Smith
#32. 17 v When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But v he laid his right hand on me, w saying, Fear not, x I am the first and the last, 18and the living one. y I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and z I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Anonymous
#33. Animators Inc., where our motto was Where the Living Raise the Dead for a Killing.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#34. Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.
Dorothy Simpson
#35. The communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living
The Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot
#36. The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental.
Thomas Gately Briody
#37. I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.
Jonathan Levine
#38. The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.
Rick Riordan
#39. Zombies are a fairly new addition to the cannon of monsterdom. Really, the modern zombie goes back just to the 'Night of the Living Dead.' There's a ton of material out there, but it seems like there's not a lot of diversity out there.
Steve Hockensmith
#40. The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#41. Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.
Nikola Tesla
#42. 'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.
Jordan Peele
#43. It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#44. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Shannon Hale
#45. As you climb to success over the dead, don't alienate the living.
Kris Waldherr
#46. Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.
Richard Matheson
#47. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.
Rebecca McNutt
#48. And if you could make a study of the dead, Stevens thought from time to time, you could make a study of the living, and make them testify as no cadaver could.
Colson Whitehead
#49. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.
Virginia McKenna
#50. 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
#51. Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.
Jorge Luis Borges
#52. Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J.K. Rowling
#53. We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
Confucius
#54. The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
Czeslaw Milosz
#55. There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene Ionesco
#56. The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
George R R Martin
#57. 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
#58. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#59. If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
#60. Though you may never have attended a funeral, two of the world's humans die every second. Eight in the time it took you to read that sentence. Now we're at fourteen. The dead space this process out nicely so that the living hardly even notice they're undergoing the transformation. Unless
Caitlin Doughty
#61. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#62. World of words lost on the living /
I take my place with the walking dead /
Robbed of my voice I'm always giving /
Thousands of words to this nameless dread.
Maggie Stiefvater
#64. What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.
Nour Zikra
#65. How can you even think about being awake in the world, let alone caring about someone?"
"Because they may be gone, but I'm not. I honor their memories by living, not by becoming the walking dead.
Anne Calhoun
#66. Entities are beings that are dead. They are the lowest beings on the evolutionary scale because they don't even know they are dead. They are so stupid. What they seek is life again - they come into the world of the living.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Death changes things. It changes how we think about people; it changes the living and it changes the dead.
Martin Sixsmith
#68. Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#69. 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
#70. I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.
Rebecca Forster
#71. She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead.
Octavia E. Butler
#72. To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
John Henry Newman
#73. He spent long hours meditating on the wisdom of loving living things which invariably ended up dead.
Rohinton Mistry
#74. Rows of books around me stand,
Fence me in on either hand;
Through that forest of dead words
I would hunt the living birds
So I write these lines for you
Who have felt the death-wish too,
All the wires are cut, my friends
Live beyond the severed ends.
Louis MacNeice
#75. Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living.
Tara Hudson
#76. Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
Philip James Bailey
#77. A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
#78. Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
D.H. Lawrence
#79. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Aristotle.
#80. The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.
Emily Croy Barker
#81. 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
#82. Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anne Frank
#83. I study dead languages for a living," I said. "That's why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line of work? How's your Serbo-Croatian? What's your position on the relationship between Oscan and Marrucinian?" He
Neal Stephenson
#84. I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
Barbara Kingsolver
#85. There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.
Gennadiy Aygi
#86. We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#88. This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago."
A chill ran through me. "And you?"
"Me?" The corner of his mouth twitched. "I rule the dead. I am not one of them
Aimee Carter
#89. There is something to be said for rain, the sharing of an intimate caress with the leaves, blades of grass and all the living and the dead creatures to remind us we are connected.~Lyn Crain
Lyn Crain
#90. Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.
Alice Hoffman
#91. I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?
Diane Setterfield
#92. The dead weren't angry or lost. They knew exactly what was up. It was the living that didn't have a clue.
Amy Harmon
#93. I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
Alice Sebold
#94. What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
William, Saroyan
#95. I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.
Charles Dickens
#96. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
living; tears for the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#97. A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated by the contingent pressures of his martyrdom.
John Peter Nettl
#98. We stood
the dead child and the living
on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forever. To please us both was an impossibility.
Alice Sebold
#99. The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
Lidia Yuknavitch
