Dead - Quotes
The Past is all holy to us; the Dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive.
However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
A terminal cancer patient`s unbearable pain is pointless; it`s as if one were to drive the dead to the cemetery in an ambulance with flashing lights and screaming sirens. Pain makes sense only as long as recovery is possible.
A word is dead when it`s been said,
some say.
I say it just begins to live
that day.
In wars, no one wins, everyone loses. There are no heroes, there`s only dead people.
Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.
Desire - and all concede it -
kills all who are not dead.
But happiness, you need it
as you need daily bread.
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.