„Some one said: “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better.“
— Stephen King
„Text: Psalm 119:19. I am a stranger on the earth, hide not Thy command ments from me.Are we what we dreamt we should be? No, but still the sorrows of life..., so much more numerous than we expected, the tossing to and fro in the world, they have covered it over, but it is not dead, it sleepeth.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six“
— Virginia Woolf
„we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.“
— Charles Bukowski
„I knew im, she knew im, e knew im, we all knew im.’ After this paradigm, which impressed his hearers, he paused. ‘E was a customer ere. Not perhaps one of the best customers. Not like Roger Alliwell ere oo drinks whisky to the tune of near one bottle a day, which is good for the ouse and, as far as we can see, does imself no arm. But e was a customer, loyal to the ouse, regular in attendance, and that’s all we ask of any man or woman for that matter. Well, now e’s gone. We’re sorry e’s gone. You’re sorry e’s gone. I’m sorry e’s gone. And we can’t say much more than that. Now the question is: is e gone to a better place? I don’t know the answer to that, nor do you, nor does she. Perhaps e knows,’ said Ted, shrugging towards the vicar, ‘because it’s is job to know. But the rest of us don’t know. Right. But I say this. E done is best for all. Never a ard word come out of that man’s art. Right. Well loved e was and for all is faults we would love im still, if e was still alive. But e’s dead now and we wish im all the best in is new destination. And I can’t say no fairer than that.“
— Anthony Burgess
„Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.“
— Anne Frank