Alive Quote by Ariel Pink

“Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now ’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death,…

— Herman Melville

“This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows…

— Zeina Kassem

“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping. Under the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I’m haunted. We all are, I guess. We’re parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will…

— Jason S. Hornsby

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“I stood there, listening. The wind blew snow from the branches. Snow blew out of the woods in eddies and sweeping gusts. I raised…

— Don DeLillo

“Yesterday I noticed a scent of bark outside that I had not smelled in years. While the bark lingered in my nose, flushing out…

— Jonathan Hull

“We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make…

— John Green

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead…

— Helen Keller

"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to…

— Charles Dickens

“Author's Prayer If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem over and…

— Ilya Kaminsky