Dead Man Walking

Famous quotes containing the words dead, man and/or walking:

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.”
—C. Day Lewis (20th century)