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“I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?”

— Charles Bukowski

“It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?”

— Lee Battersby

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

— Amedeo Modigliani

“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

“Waiting is a form of passive persistence.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

— William Faulkner

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's…

— Tim O'Brien

“For the past few weeks I have been laboring under the assumption that if people thought I was dead, they would stop annoying me…

— Gary Reilly

“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!”

— Georges Rodenbach

“There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.”

— Jessie Douglas Kerruish

“If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the…

— Charles Stross