“Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better.”
Jud, to Louis
Pet Sematary (1983)
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Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Bertrand Russell, attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament he helped found http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, (2008) p. 49–50
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“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
Cate Tiernan
(1961) American novelist
Source: Sweep: Volume 1
“Better a live donkey than a dead lion.”
Ernest Shackleton
(1874–1922) Anglo-Irish polar explorer
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“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”
Stefano Guazzo
(1530–1593) Italian writer
Più tosto can vivo che leone morto.
Della Morte, p. 525.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 394.
“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”
Walden (1854)
Context: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.<!--pp.366-367
“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
Stephen King
book
The Stand
Source: The Stand
“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”
Stanley Kubrick
(1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
“Since the soul in me is dead,
Better save the skin.”
Mortuus in anima<br/>curam gero cutis.
Archpoet
(1130–1165) 12th century poet
Mortuus in anima
curam gero cutis.
Source: "Confession", Line 39