History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the…

“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.”

— Edmund Burke

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the…

— George Mackay Brown

“Those who plead for the lives of the unborn should consider the lives of the living. ...the unborn are not as wretched or as…

— John Irving

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

— Sandra Cisneros

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue…

— Jenny Downham

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

— William T. Vollmann

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

— Thomas Paine

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do…

— James Madison

“Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.”

— Gavin Extence

“When was it all right to let go not only of the dead but of the living - to learn to accept?”

— Alice Sebold

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

— Alfred Austin

“The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead…

— Flannery O'Connor

Leave em dead in the living room get it leave em dead in the living room

— Lil Wayne

“So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just these few…

— Joan Frances Turner

“Ozymandias controls not only the dead, but the living. He works the dark magics, and it is said he knows the paths between the…

— Jana Oliver