Alive Quote by Edith Wharton

“Breathing through his mouth, he found he could taste the air. It was the taste of an old, abandoned book; of a damp cemetery…

— Ambrose Ibsen

“He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that…

— George Orwell

“I wanted his death so savagely that the need for it rang in my ears and clouded my sight and was a flavor on…

— Stephenie Meyer

The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires…

— Kaye Gibbons

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain,…

— Diana Gabaldon

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front…

— Christine Feehan

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway…

— Pearl S. Buck

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He thought: Oh, I have fed on honey-dew. On wine and whiskey and champagne and the tender white meat of women and fine clothes…

— Glendon Swarthout

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

— Jack London

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.”

— Rhian Ellis