“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“You! You are so lucky you're dead.”

Kat Richardson (1964) American writer

“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him…He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator

“A rebel is born, a rebel is dead and in his death many others come to life. This is how we get revolutionists one generation after another”

Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.”

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

“Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!"”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie