Altered Quote by Joseph Beuys

“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Vonnegut Kurt

“He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they need to…

— Hilary Mantel

“The language of the past is Lazarus riding backward on a black horse. What gets resurrected just has to die again.”

— Sara Rich

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Memento mori,” the monarch whispered. “Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph…

— Dan Brown

“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die…

— Joe Abercrombie

“That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.”

— Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical…

— Karl Marx

“He’d seen unequivocally that the chaos he’d dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would…

— James S.A. Corey

“He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.”

— Gish Jen