Quote by Donna Tartt

“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.”

— Ellen Raskin

“Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you…

— Ellen Raskin

“Somehow, by dealing with the dead, I had never felt so alive.”

— Karina Halle

“Dead is the most alone you can be.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.”

— James Lee Burke

“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming sense of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I like being alive, but being dead might be an interesting adventure as well.”

— Emma Hamm

“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“But he doubted the dead could think or feel anything. In his opinion, that was ones of the great things about dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard

“I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And emptiness vast and absolute.”

— Isaac Marion