“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead.”

"Funny Things to Think About and Eat" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E0D7123BF937A35754C0A964948260&scp=50&sq=&st=nyt, The New York Times (4 July 1982)

“I say, and have always said, and will always say: the fish that does not sing throughout the whole world is a dead fish.”

Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author

Merchant Gúðmúnsen
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"We As Americans" (2004)
2000s

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“But what if no one's watching?
What if when we're dead, we are just dead?
What if there's no time to lose?
What if there's things we gotta do,
Things that need to be said?”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

What If No One's Watching
Song lyrics

“Truly, I wish I were dead.
She was weeping when she left me,
and said many things to me, and said this:
"How much we have suffered, Sappho.
Truly, I don't want to leave you."”

Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 11

“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead.”

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