#dead

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River) ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#shell-shocked #survivors #the-walking-dead #death

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#live #long #long time #only #short

You don't notice the dead leaving when they really hoose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#family

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. ↗

— John Huston

#drunk #god #i #just #prefer

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#dead #divorced #done #got #happy

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistency #consistent #contrary #dead #life

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

#democracy #equal #grave #last #men

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bones #dead #habit #living #old

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. ↗

— Neil Innes

#could #dead #grateful #grateful dead #just

God is not a dead equation! ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#equation #god