The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I…

Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.

— Noel Riley Fitch

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“He couldn’t be dead, because he was still so alive in her mind.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“Yes, he is dead, dead...But we--we are alive! (67)”

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Dear, if you are dead or alive, I will still love you no matter what.

— Graham Earl

“Urgent Story" When the oracle said, ‘If you keep pigeons you will never lose home.’ I kept pigeons. They flicked their red eyes over…

— Tess Gallagher

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

— Romain Rolland

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I…

— Joan Didion

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

— Guy Endore

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

— Jeff Baena

“With her, and only with her, the dead in me is alive.”

— Becca Ritchie

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

— Jodi Picoult

Half dead isn't dead, but half dead is still alive

— Kells

If I weren’t already dead, I’d be alive with joy,

— Rachel Vincent