Quote by Lynn Hagen

“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.”

— David Maze

“There's no need to kick him in the balls for him to tell the story honestly and impartially, because the dead are usually honest,…

— Hassan Blasim

“A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. but it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s…

— William Faulkner

“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.”

— A. Lee Martinez

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.”

— Steve Berry

“Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains.”

— K.W. Jeter

“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”

— Clarence Darrow

“Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.”

— Anonymous