Alive Quote by Anonymous

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

— Freya Stark

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.…

— John Green

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

— John Green

“The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit. O perpetual revolution of configured stars, O perpetual…

— T.S. Eliot

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

— Ouida

Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal…

— Maximilien Robespierre

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of…

— Orville Dewey

“I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

— George Eliot

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect...I digress, but here's the rub: The dead are…

— John Green

“There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by…

— Rilke, Rainer Maria

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

— William Morley Punshon