Animal Quote by Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Above all, there has never been a community that did not cohabit with its dead. But today, socially, the dead are no more. They…

— Barbara Duden

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

The Dead Are Living

— Mitch Lucker

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a…

— Og Mandino

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to…

— Esther Perel

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

— Truman Capote

If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments,…

— William Irwin Thompson

Any group that can be livened up by Mensa must be pretty much dead!

— Anne Hegerty

“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally potent and…

— Thomas Lynch

“Humans are unique in this world in that, as opposed to all other animals, they have developed a consciousness so advanced that it has…

— Steve Toltz

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . .…

— Thornton Wilder

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

— Catharine Arnold