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“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

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“The past inspires the future, just as the dead inspire the living.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the…

— Blake Crouch

“The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they…

— Håkan Nesser

“sometimes the living are beholden to the dead”

— Scott Pearce