“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
“When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.”
Irene, in Act II
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
“We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.”
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.
We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.
“My dead go on suffering in me the pain of living.”
Mis muertos siguen sufriendo el dolor de la vida en mí.
Voces (1943)
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.”
Light (1919), Ch. XIV - The Ruins
Context: I am not in pain. I am extraordinarily calm; I am drunk with tranquillity. Are they dead, all — those? I do not know. The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead. Something warm is licking my hand. The black mass which overhangs me is trembling. It is a foundered horse, whose great body is emptying itself, whose blood is flowing like poor touches of a tongue on to my hand.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.
We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”