Alive Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to see the…

— G.K. Chesterton

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

— Harold MacMillan

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

“But it doesn't happen that way, I keep telling myself knowingly and sadly. Only in our fraternity pledges and masonic inductions, our cowboy movies…

— Cornell Woolrich

“The city went on about its business. A new day would soon begin, and nothing so inconsequential as a death possessed the power to…

— R.J. Ellory

“But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration of people…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

— Jaroslav Pelikan

“Why should we celebrate These dead men more than the dying? It is not to ring the bell backward Nor is it an incantation…

— T.S. Eliot

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour,…

— Michel de Certeau

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

— Stewart O'Nan