I don't really think it will make much difference to me…

I'd rather live for what I believe in rather than die for it. After all, how am I supposed to make a difference if…

— Kaitlen Dearing

“The dead can read tears.”

— Louis de Bernières

I would rather be dead than not read

— Annie Proulx

“Leave the lights on: you can sleep when you're dead...you can't read when you're dead.”

— Michael Link

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

— Tom Stoppard

“He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

“Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.”

— Burl Barer

“If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

— Woody Allen

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly…

— Billy Crystal

I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom…

— Thom Yorke

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification…

— Euripides

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only…

— John Frusciante