Humans Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

“He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it…

— Donna Tartt

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.”

— Alice Sebold

“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so…

— Natsuo Kirino

“The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music…

— Fern Schumer Chapman

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

— Victoria Schwab

“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

“I can see why living people would dream up that vision of ghosts. No one wants to believe life ends this way...interrupted, unresolved, and…

— Amy Huntley

“The dead are, for the most part, done with the world. You are not. You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can…

— Neil Gaiman

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them…

— Diane Setterfield

“Death and decay do not have the last word. The last word is life.”

— Maria Grace Dateno

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect...I digress, but here's the rub: The dead are…

— John Green

“the game will be finished when everyone is dead”

— TheRealMari