Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“The world contains a lot of dead people.”

— John Green

“The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead…

— Flannery O'Connor

“It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.”

— William Ritter

“The dead are everywhere. Most are buried and forgotten. A very small number walk among you.”

— J.R. Rain

“... ‘the dead far outnumber the living.”

— Milan Kundera

“I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.” He”

— Neil Gaiman

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...”

— Victoria Schwab

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“If everything was reduced to surviving, there’d be no more room for living.”

— Robert Chazz Chute

“A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead, not realizing he is burying himself away from…

— Michael Ondaatje

“If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad.”

— James Baldwin