Dead Alive Quotes:

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Heartbreak, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Condolences

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Beautiful, Death, Dead Alive

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

- Steven Biko

source: Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

topic: Proud, Alive, Care, Dead Alive, Black Consciousness

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

source: Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.10, Modern Library

topic: Mistake, Writing, Errors, Dead Alive

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

- Joan Didion

source: FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Nov 16, 2016

topic: Order, Trying, Alive, Magical Thinking, Dead Alive

Live dead. Alive to Christ, dead to self.

- Mark Beeson

topic: Self, Alive, Christ, Dead Alive

The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.

- John Irving

source: John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

topic: Jobs, Memories, Cities, Dead Alive, Vividness

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

- Guy Endore

source: "Fictional character: Professor Zelin". "Mark of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1935.

topic: Men, Enemy, Alive, Dead Alive