“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”

“The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes”

Jean Paul Sartre book Saint Genet

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”

Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970) Japanese manga artist

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.”

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic

“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey