Dead Men

Famous quotes containing the words dead men, dead and/or men:

“Dead men would start and move
toward me to learn of love.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“But 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 (20th century)

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)