A Quote by Nixon Waterman

A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.

Nixon Waterman

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Dead Living More Rose Sumptuous Than Wreaths

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Nixon Waterman
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November 12, 1859 - September 1, 1944

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

Emily Bronte

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Serj Tankian

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

Timothy Keller

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

Oriana Fallaci

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

Billy Graham

There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees to stand. There is more life in a dead tree than in a living tree: around 2,000 animal species in the UK rely on dead or dying wood for their survival.

George Monbiot

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Jean-Luc Godard

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

Storm Jameson

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.