Communication Quote by Jonathan L. Howard

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began…

— James Baldwin

“Mostly, I heard about it from the Estate servants, who found it quite natural to speak openly of a death, but rarely said much…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Vonnegut Kurt

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“He was in his coffin, ready to be buried, and yet he knew that he wasn’t dead.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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

“But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so…

— Thomas Mann

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding…

— Anonymous