Some dead people said smart stuff.

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But what I didn’t know yet was that you can tell a girl you want to hang out with her because she said something…

— Nina LaCour

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are…

— Heidi Julavits

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

“And then I see them. In the glow of the flashlight, I see the corses. Stacks of them. Some are shriveled. Some are putrid.…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“The thing about dead people,” he said, and then stopped himself. “The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don’t romanticize them,…

— John Green

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die…

— Louis C. K

“I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I am proposing Facebook for dead people, name it

— Mahmudul Islam

“But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your…

— LynDee Walker

I don't see dead people, I see people I wish were dead.

— Anonymous

One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

— Charles Starkweather

“When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens…

— Ray Loriga

“A body can't be too partic'lar how they talk 'bout these-yer dead people, Tom.”

— Mark Twain

“Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.”

— Ruta Sepetys