Alive Quote by Julian Barnes

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

— Adam Silvera

I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both…

— Meghan O'Rourke

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

— Sarah Monette

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

— Theophile Gautier

“But who knows how long a grief may last? Isn't it possible that, even thirty or forty years after the death of a child…

— Stephen King

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

— Xenophon

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of…

— Abigail McCarthy

Some people have passed away, but their character has kept them alive, others are alive, but their character has killed them.

— Anonymous

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?

— Karen Marie Moning

With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were…

— John Ankerberg

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

— Anne Enright