“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”
— Xenophon
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Su Shi (1037–1101) Chinese writer
"Dreaming of My Deceased Wife on the Night of the Twentieth Day of the First Month" (《江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦》), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 202
“The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
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.
“Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.”
Drew Karpyshyn book Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Source: Path of Destruction
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
Stephen King book The Stand
Source: The Stand
“Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.”
Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order
Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 177
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book VII, 7.75-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII
“Talking to yourself is a sign of madness. Talking to yourself, dead, is class.”
Tom Holt book Paint Your Dragon
c. 12
Paint Your Dragon (1996)
