Admire Quote by William Boyd

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Curtis Armstrong

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure…

— William Hazlitt

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

— James Ellroy

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

— Anonymous

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

— Sigmund Freud

I don't see dead people, I see people I wish were dead.

— Anonymous

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become…

— Hermann Broch

I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

— Mark Twain

When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought…

— Gautama Buddha