“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”
Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves
Source: House of Leaves
The Soviet.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”
Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves
Source: House of Leaves
“Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!”
Herman Melville book Billy Budd, Sailor
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 19
Franz Wright (1953–2015) American poet
Source: Walking to Martha's Vineyard
“The dance industry is flogging a dead house.”
Mixmaster Morris (1965) English ambient DJ
Mixmag 1997. Morris was fired from this job for this comment.
“No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.”
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer
Source: My Fantoms
“All lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) Novelist, poet, writer, activist
At last.
“God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 125
The Gay Science (1882)
Context: God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?