Quote by Édouard Levé

“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”

— Niccolo Tucci

“Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.”

— Fakeer Ishavardas

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

— Osamu Dazai

“Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we’re like ghosts, the two of us, even though we’re…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I wasn't dead. This meant something. We all take our lives for granted so often, we forget that this, right here, this moment, is…

— Tabatha Beshears

“I am dead to you, but you are living in me.”

— Haritha Velpureddy

“I might be alive now, but I’d experienced what I thought was my final, one-and-only permanent death. That hadn’t been fun, that soulless, hopeless…

— B.V. Larson

“I cannot live, if I am already dead.”

— Donna Russo Morin

“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Emma Hamm

“I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin