“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
Dan Simmons book Endymion
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 20)
“Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.”
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As w…" by Elie Wiesel?
Elie Wiesel155
writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and … 1928–2016Related quotes
Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916) Founder of the Bible Student Movement
Source: Milennial Dawn, Vol. III: Thy Kingdom Come (1891), p. 117.
“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
“There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.”
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Source: The History of Love
“One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.”
Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
Campbell Brown (2009) in interview with Julie Menin; Partial transcript in: Warner Todd Hustonin " Campbell Brown: ‘CNN Only One Still Doing Journalism’ http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/07/21/campbell-brown-cnn-only-one-still-doing-journalism", posted July 21, 2009. <br class="br">In response to a question "What is your take on the fact that CNN, the pioneer in cable news, is really marketing your political independence to distinguish itself from its competitors?"
Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
An Open Letter To Miles Davis (1955)
Context: I think my own way. I don't think like you and my music isn't meant just for the patting of feet and going down backs. When and if I feel gay and carefree, I write or play that way. When I feel angry I write or play that way — or when I'm happy, or depressed, even.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever. Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music, and I would begin to worry about my writing if such a person began to really like it. My music is alive and it's about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It's angry, yet it's real because it knows it's angry.