“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
Dissent - as proof of life
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” Dissent - as proof of life
There is no end to this march of human thought, as it transcends even death itself. The moment one node dies, many others will learn from the ideas of that node, and those thoughts form the foundation of further ideas to come. This is why the words of dead poets, politicians, and philosophers grow increasingly influential as time runs its course.
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
“Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he has lived a long time.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 3.8b
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
When you are dead, it does not matter.
Michael D. O'Brien • Island of the World: A Novel
The early Greek philosopher Heraclitus, emphasising the contingent and changing nature of existence, is supposed to have said that no-one ever steps into the same river twice, because new waters are always flowing down. Others have taken this as an image for human personality – that the notion of a fixed personality is an illusion.
Michael Axworthy • Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
There is no struggle between life and death. There is only life. Death is simply a pattern of energy fading away.