After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. Arthur Miller
This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. Swami Vivekananda
I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now. Marlene Dietrich
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive. Haruki Murakami
i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive. Jodi Picoult