P. D. James - Dead Quotes

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For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

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Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

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The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

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The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man's-land.

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A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

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Death... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

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