Living Death Quotes

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

For now they kill me with a living death.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Everything is dead while it lives.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.