Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
William FaulknerI do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
Helen OyeyemiThe day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
A Clash of KingsThe only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
ConcreteLife is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
The Collected PoemsThere’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
Definitely Dead