#dead

You don't notice the dead leaving when they really hoose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#family

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. ↗

— John Huston

#drunk #god #i #just #prefer

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#dead #divorced #done #got #happy

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistency #consistent #contrary #dead #life

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

#democracy #equal #grave #last #men

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bones #dead #habit #living #old

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. ↗