Generations Quote by John Banville

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is…

— Paul Auster

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 know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

— Joan Didion

If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.

— Joey Comeau

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead.…

— James A. Garfield

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

— George Eliot

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

— Robert Kirkman

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I…

— Joan Didion

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

— Joseph Hall

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have…

— Seneca the Younger

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are…

— Seneca the Younger