Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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So up and down I sow them For lads like me to find, When I shall lie below them, A dead man out of mind.
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Are you shouting at me, dead man, squeezing your face In agonies of speech on speechless panes?...
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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
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