Pity is for the gezegde

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Italian Proverb

And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

Bible

We were working for the living, and now we are working for the dead and the living. It's pretty tough, pulling out dead bodies.

Louis Cataldie

The survivors would envy the dead.

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)

I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead.

John Banville

Folk säger att satiren är död. Den är inte död. Den lever och frodas i Vita huset.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Robin Williams (1952-)

There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live

John Taylor (1753-1824)

There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live

John Taylor (1753-1824)

And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

George Arnold

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, / I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Bible

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