I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. Vincent van Gogh
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. Federico García Lorca
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism. Annie Besant
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world. Federico García Lorca
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. Martha Graham
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. Jacques Derrida