“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!”
St. 6.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
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“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
John Rivers in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Context: You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) President of the Confederate States of America
In the 1880s, as quoted on an inscription at Vicksburg National Military Park http://jeffreyevanbrooks.blogspot.com/2015/09/sadness-and-hope-along-siege-lines-of.html. <br class="br">1880s
“I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“I do not ask you about the dead past. I bring you to the living present.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1860s, Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army? (1863)
“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi
William Bradford (1590–1657) English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony (1590-1657)
Ch. 4.