Music is the only place I can be dead honest.

“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead…

— Mark Twain

Library: A place where the dead lie.

— Elbert Hubbard

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...”

— Victoria Schwab

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

— Alan Green

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort…

— John Scalzi

“We place our dead in carefully tended cemeteries, strictly separate from the rest of our lives, only to be visited on anniversaries and special…

— Neve Maslakovic

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling…

— Martha Wells

“Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place…

— Tess Gerritsen

I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer…

— Paul Klee

“This was the threshold to the place of the dead.”

— Terry Goodkind

“knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces. Yet”

— H.P. Lovecraft

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place…

— Margaret Atwood

“Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk…

— Catharine Arnold