Alive Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

— Josh Billings

We always honor our people when they die; we've got to honor them while we're still alive.

— Biz Markie

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

— Francis A Walker

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

— Elbert Hubbard

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

— William Boyd

There is nothing triumphant or boastful in the way we mourn the dead and pay our veterans the respect they deserve.

— Ed Davey

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow…

— Clarice Lispector

We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

— Jennifer Granholm

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

— PZ Myers

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

— Curtis Armstrong