“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.”
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Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Death-And After http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0tIQ-MGW6F8C&pg=PA19, p. 19
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
George Arnold (1834–1865) American author and poet
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) American writer
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions," Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld (1822)
Later Additions to the Maxims