“If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.”

— Cassandra Clare

Source: Zombies Vs. Unicorns

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American author 1973

Taylor Horn (1992) American musician and actor

Horn on visiting England for the first time to visit her penpal, Molly Gamble in England
Malvern Gaz http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1256525759902277&url=www.geocities.com/thecoolchip03/malverngaz.htm article

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Roger Zelazny book This Immortal

Source: This Immortal

“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

“Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.”

Kiefer Sutherland (1966) English-Canadian actor, director, producer, voice actor

Interview in The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1429594,00.html (6 March 2005).

“i suppose i have a really loose interpretation of "work", because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep”

Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

“You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved… and in the end, nothing else really matters.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

“If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.”

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