“The dead lay unburied, and each man as he recognized a friend among them shuddered with grief and horror; while the living whom they were leaving behind, wounded or sick, were to the living far more shocking than the dead, and more to be pitied than those who had perished.”
Book VII, 7.75-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: In those former times we lived. Now we hardly live any more, since we have lived. They who we were are dead, for we are here. Her glances come to me, but they do not join again the two surviving voids that we are; her look does not wipe out our widowhood, nor change anything. And I, I am too imbued with clear-sighted simplicity and truth to answer "no" when it is "yes." In this moment by my side Marie is like me.
The immense mourning of human hearts appears to us. We dare not name it yet; but we dare not let it not appear in all that we say.
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
Source: Un Lun Dun
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions," Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld (1822)
Later Additions to the Maxims