That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn’t fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must...

I’ve had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

All death matters.””Only to the living.

And won’t he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go...

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

To them I’m simply an object from the past that they wish will disappear Then why do I exist? Why am I alive? When I thought about this I could find no answer. But as...

I’m chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart....

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don’t know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am...

I woke up dead.Not only dead…but in hell.I had always been somewhat sketchy on what the afterlife – were there actually such a thing – would be like for a person such as I. From...

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere – a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

The author is still dead, folks!!

You’re not dead at 85. You’re a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You’ve earned it.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

How quickly the dead faded into each other,

For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Back in the Rat Pack days, we’d take Frank’s plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We’d watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn’t ask for a better thing.

The dead appear to us in dreams because that’s the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from...

Still.” Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play...

You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave

I have such a soft spot for the really cheesy zombie movies, but if I had to pick a really good one, I’d have to go with an actual TV show and say ‘The Walking...

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention–he expected to fly–but instead he fell straight down, hitting the...

Free, I think. They’re free.(is this why she joined them?)I feel so-So relieved.I pick up the pace as I near the opening, my hands gripping my rifle but I have a feeling I ain’t gonna...

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it’s dead, expect anything.

I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn’t even tell the difference.

The dead are practical.

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known...

I’m the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor

If somebody wanted me dead, I’d try to convince them to wait 25 years, for technology to arrive, so they can go kill my clone. It’s a win-win for me and them, but not for...

Why is it that people talk about death, as if it is a part of life, when it is entirely separate? Someone passes on into the never ending void, where the living aren’t allowed. We...

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what’s dead. It won’t complain.

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.

When he’s late for dinner, I know he’s either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it’s the street.

The dead don’t stay dead in this town! Haunted Richmond II-Pamela K. Kinney

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not...

With ‘Elect the Dead,’ I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I’ve always wanted to make.

I don’t think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there’s only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It’s as if he’s speaking the words again. “Oh,...