Absence Quote by David Bowie

“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. David Bowie”

— David Bowie

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

— James Frey

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

— Ken Kesey

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

— Nikki Sixx

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

— Anne Sexton

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from…

— Aleksandar Hemon

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

— Anne Sexton

“The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with…

— Shannon L. Alder

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and…

— William Wordsworth

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully…

— Herman Melville

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

— John Burdett

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

— P. D. James