Building Quote by Dorothy Parker

“And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?”

— Franz Wright

“The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest.”

— Anthony Liccione

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.”

— Italo Calvino

“So. Lazarus returns from the dead at last. I was wondering when you were going to surface. You’re like a bad penny. Never know…

— J.T. Ellison

“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.”

— A. Lee Martinez

“It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home---my daily stations with the local lately dead---that the darkness would often give way to…

— Thomas Lynch

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

“Immediately the sounds of the street below grew detached, distant, the meaningless echoes of urban voices whose urgent notes reached but held no sway…

— Barry Eisler

“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed…

— Colm Tóibín

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer