“There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.”
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Source: The History of Love
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Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Source: The Cost of Living
“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
Dan Simmons book Endymion
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 20)
“I didn't know Elvis was alive until he was dead.”
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress
As quoted in "Interview: Elaine Dundy, celebrated author of the seminal book, Elvis & Gladys: Genesis of The King, talks to EIN" (2004) http://www.elvisinfonet.com/dundy1.html <br class="br">Context: I didn't know Elvis was alive until he was dead. But how many stories are like mine? Until his death August 16, 1977, it was possible to get through a day without hearing his name. Of course I remember all the early outrage he caused but believe me it was easy not to see any of his films. It doesn't mean that music has not always dominated my heart and mind. During the years barren of Elvis I did have my record player on constantly but it was playing folk, blues, and jazz. It was playing Al Jolson, Maurice Chevalier, Billie Holiday, Ethel Merman, and Noel Coward. The human voice raised in song has always been important to me so I include Miles Davis whose trumpet is such an important human voice. Then after his death in London in taxis, on radio and TV I heard nothing but Elvis records and that grabbed my attention.
Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos
“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
”Beast,” p. 72
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive
Source: Dead and Alive