Top 7 The Living Will Envy The Dead Quotes
#3. Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
Ovid
#4. Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
Wilfred Owen
#5. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.
Mark Twain
#6. 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
#7. Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Henry Fuseli
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