“Never felt so alive as you did after you came out of a battle in one piece. And if you were dead? You wouldn’t feel that…”

— Steve Perry

Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 32

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American writer 1947

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“You say you wake up
In the morning
Feeling used
Like a fallen angel
Tired and bruised
It's got you feeling
So insane
More dead than alive
Love's got you stained
On the inside”

Traci Lords (1968) American mainstream and pornographic actress, producer, film director, writer and singer

Fallen Angel, written by Traci Lords, Ben Watkins, and Johann Bley
Song lyrics, 1000 Fires (1995)

“You owned the world when you were a young man, felt it like it was fashioned to fit your hands. You could do anything with it you wanted to. But the world kept changing, and sooner or later there came a day when it didn’t feel like you were the one the world was interested in any more.”

Alastair Reynolds book Wrecking Party

Wrecking Party (p. 178)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)

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

Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

On Death

“Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

On Writing Poetry (1995)

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Peaches

“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.
Speeches
Source: The Cost of Living

“I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge — what kind of monster would fascinate people? I couldn’t draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn’t faint dead away. There was nothing disgusting in his demeanor. There was nothing about him that repelled you. My monsters were lovable monsters.”

Jack Kirby (1917–1994) American comic book artist, writer and editor

1990, Gary Groth interview

“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Source: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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