“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Source: Unsourced
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
The same is true of what we write: it walks and it talks, but it can be dead-alive or alive-alive. What is truly alive stops before nothing and ceaselessly seeks answers to absurd, "childish" questions. Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken — errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. And if answers be impossible of attainment, all the better! Dealing with answered questions is the privilege of brains constructed like a cow's stomach, which, as we know, is built to digest cud.
http://splitsider.com/2013/02/the-annotated-wisdom-of-louis-c-k/
“When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Death-And After http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0tIQ-MGW6F8C&pg=PA19, p. 19
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?”
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (1866), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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