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61 " Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead. "
62 " Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp. "
― Peter Akinti , Forest Gate
63 " I wonder if I talk like a dead man. My daughter once came home from school very excited about some lecture -this was years ago, before I died, though just right before- and she said her English teacher had talked about what the dead sound like in Dante. This funny thing about Dante's dead, which is that they know the past, and even the future, but they don't know the present. About the present they have all these questions for Dante. And that somehow is what being alive is, to be suspended in the time. She seemed to feel that really meant something. That and also that the dead know themselves better than the living do. "
― Rivka Galchen , Atmospheric Disturbances
64 " When family gathers around for a dying loved one, I have realised, that it probably does more good for the living, than for the dying. Sometimes, death can bring the living together, and death can cause the living to find solace in one another. In this way, death is a part of life, and those who die can in fact give gifts to the living, gifts that they were not able to give while they were still alive and well. "
― C. JoyBell C.
65 " P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
66 " I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me... "
67 " If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)
68 " Little tree filled his lungs with the white airness of the night, as if he were going to fly. The living voice of his parents. Elisha's eyes. These were reasons enough to set off on another adventure.Reasons to be Toby Lolness again. "
― Timothée de Fombelle , Toby Alone
69 " The dead weren’t scary. It was the living you had to watch out for. "
― Eileen Wilks , Mortal Ties (World of the Lupi, #9)
70 " Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions. "
― Nora Roberts , Born in Shame (Born In Trilogy, #3)
71 " Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Lord of the Rings
72 " Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place. "
― Garth Risk Hallberg
73 " Only the living can learn from their mistakes. "
― Amanda M. Lyons , Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
74 " May the living have hope. "
75 " The only thing more fragile than life is the living we take for granted. "
― James Stoddah , A Parallel Trust
76 " Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details—the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet all working together to maintain the atmosphere and the soil. "
― , Within These woods: a collection of Northwoods nature essays, with original illustrations by the author
77 " Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do. "
― Srividya Srinivasan
78 " What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead. "
79 " 233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time "
80 " Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time "