Quote by Francis Spufford

“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always assumed was…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.”

— Howard Browne

“The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed he was dead. He hoped he was dead.”

— Vonnegut Kurt

“But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.”

— Martin Fletcher

“Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible…

— Alexandre Dumas

“-Is he dead? -Gosh I hope so, because I went to a lot of trouble to dig his grave.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.”

— Frances Hardinge

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And when is it necessary to kill, she asked herself as she headed in the direction of the hallway, and she herself answered the…

— José Saramago

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living,…

— John Green

“He has not lived in vain who dies the day he is told about the Way.”

— Confucius

“He worries she’s going to ask what happened. Why he isn’t dead. It’s a question he’s been dreading and preparing for all day.”

— Blake Crouch