3,544 Quotes About Living

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

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.

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.