“b>Oh, it's so good to be dead!
- little Anna”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
[Time Magazine, CNN's Jack Cafferty Mouths Off, 15 September 2007, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1662283,00.html]
2007
“b>Oh, it's so good to be dead!
- little Anna”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
Kathy Griffin (1960) American actress and comedian
it's like mushed-up cornmeal." She goes, "I don't lahk it. I thought..." Mashed pateters, I got it.
The D-list (2004)
Robert Sheckley book Journey Beyond Tomorrow
Source: Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Chapter 8 “How Joenes Taught, and What He Learned” (pp. 70-71)
“He still fought stoutly on—and he was dead.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
LIII, 60
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" (1721).
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Morrissey (1959) English singer
From an interview by Adrian Deevoy in GQ http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/gqarrific/, October 2005, p. 278 <br class="br">In interviews etc., About The Smiths