Alive Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to -…

— W. G. Sebald

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below ground in…

— Gene Wolfe

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather…

— Sophie Dahl

The dead are way more organized than the living.

— China Mieville

“But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so…

— Thomas Mann

“I stood there, listening. The wind blew snow from the branches. Snow blew out of the woods in eddies and sweeping gusts. I raised…

— Don DeLillo

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those…

— Anna Godbersen

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

— Stephen Gardiner

How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing…

— Mark Helprin

In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead…

— Anonymous

They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the…

— Rupert Brooke