Predead Quotes & Sayings

Maybe you go through life with ever-present feelings of inadequacy; you worry what other people would think if they knew the real you. — Aubrey Gayel Sampson

If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent. — James W. Mercer

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot

In the center of the sofa were two oblong companion pillows, shouldered so closely together that they looked like the Decalogue tablets. They were white, or had been white, and painfully stitched upon them with blue thread were companion mottoes, companion pictures. In the left pillow lies a girl, her long blue hair asprawl about her face, her eyes innocently shut, asleep. The motto: I SLEPT AND DREAMED THAT LIFE WAS BEAUTY. But the story continued, and on the next pillow her innocence is all torn away: there she stands, gripping a round broom; her hair now is pinned up severely and behind her sits a disheartening barrel churn. I WOKE AND FOUND THAT LIFE WAS DUTY. The pillows sat, stuffed and stiff as disapproving bishops; they could, he thought, serve as twin tombstones for whole gray generations. — Fred Chappell

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes. — Gustave Flaubert

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. — David Starr Jordan

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God. — Pope Shenouda III Of Alexandria

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard. — Norman Vincent Peale

Which is why God has erected such a firewall between the living and the dead: because the predead always distort whatever the postalive tell them. Jesus or Mohammad or Siddharta, whenever any dead person has come back to offer some banal bit of advice, the living recipient misinterprets every word of it. — Chuck Palahniuk

When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. — Lyle Lovett

You'll know they've spotted us when they screech," Skulduggery told her. The creatures screeched. — Derek Landy