T Quotes
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“The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.”
“The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.”
“The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.”
“The living beings ought to praise the living God.”
“The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.”
Source: Selected poems
“The living body cannot be defined in terms of the binary opposites that structure conceptual reflection. The body is neither "subject nor object," neither "in itself" nor "for itself," neither res extensa nor res cogito. Rather the body is the mean between extremes—the "milieu" in which opposites like interiority and exteriority, as well as subjectivity and objectivity, intersect. Never reducible to the differences it simultaneously joins and separates, the body is forever entre-deux.”
Source: Altarity
“The living can assist the imagination of the dead.”
“The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.”
Source: Hannah Coulter: A Novel
“The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.”
Source: The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere else but within living material, are themselves already enormously complex. They execute a dance of exquisite fidelity, orchestrated with breathtaking precision. Vastly more elaborate than the most complicated ballet, the dance of life encompasses countless molecular performers in synergetic coordination. Yet this is a dance with no sign of a choreographer. No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating.”
Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
“The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.”
Source: The History of the Christian Church (Complete)
“The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment”
“The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extinction and grateful only for tomorrow with perhaps a little less suffering than today. Was this the legacy we would leave our children, a level of anxiety and self-doubt not seen since our simian ancestors cowered in the tallest trees? What kind of world would they rebuild? Would they rebuild at all? Could they continue to progress, knowing that they would be powerless to reclaim their future? And what if that future saw another rise of the living dead? Would our descendants rise to meet them in battle, or simply crumple in meek surrender and accept what they believe to be their inevitable extinction? For this alone, we had to reclaim our planet. We had to prove to ourselves that we could do it, and leave that proof as this war's greatest monument. The long, hard road back to humanity, or the regressive ennui of Earth's once-proud primates. That was the choice, and it had to be made now.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“The living deserve attention, too”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.”
“The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.”
“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.”
“The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.”
“The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his justice and mercy are alive.”
“The living God provides food for every living being.”
“The living grave of crime.”
“The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The living has this in common; breath of being.”
“The living have an equal opportunity of life, to exist.”
“The living have never shown me how to live.”
Source: The Philosophy of Santayana
“The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.”
“The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.”
“The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.”
Source: The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet
“The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.”
“The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.”
Source: Human Action
“The living Jesus will give you joy amid tribulation.”
“The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay”
“The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has”
“The living lives.”
“The living Lord leads His living church.”
“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”
“The living moment is everything.”
“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.”
Source: The Goddess Chronicle
“The living must desire life.”
“The living must realize the grace of life.”
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
“The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”
Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
“The living organism is maintained in a continuous exchange of components; metabolism a a basic characteristic of living systems. We have, as it were, a machine composed of fuel spending itself continually and yet maintaining itself. Such machines do not exist today.”
“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”
“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.”
“The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.”
“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”
Source: Selected essays