Parenting Quote by Luke Davies

“Human beings had created words to communicate with the dead, and with those yet unborn.”

— Shion Miura

“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 living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so…

— Natsuo Kirino

“Mankind is a postponed corpse that breeds.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“We don't want to know when we will die or when the people we love will betray us…we're hungry to know the dead before…

— Paul Auster Oracle Night

“But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because…

— Gayle Forman

“Death is in everyone’s future.”

— Steve Bein

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters…

— George Orwell

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

— M.R. Gott

“It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life…

— Kathleen Basford

“Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.”

— Alan W. Watts

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not…

— Henry Miller