Consciousness Quote by Herman Melville

They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not…

— Jean Genet

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

Being Dead means very light housekeeping

— Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought…

— Gautama Buddha

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

— James Ellroy

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

— John Burdett

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still…

— Javier Marías

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

— John Mortimer

As the dead lingers around, the living person suffers in the end

— Anonymous

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of…

— Mary Roach