Only the dead know the truth.

Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask…

— Cesare Pavese

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

— Margaret Atwood

“What gets you is the knowledge, and it sometimes can fall on you in a clap, that the dead are gone absolutely from this…

— Wendell Berry

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

— Plato

“I’ll tell you, but you’ll never understand. You’re on the wrong side of the dark glass. Only the dead know how terrible it is…

— Anne Rice

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

— Stanley Kubrick

“Not even the dead know the end to war. -Iskar Jarak”

— Steven Erikson

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

— Joanne Harris

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being…

— Edward Thomas

“The living have pleasures the dead know nothing of.”

— Amanda Grange

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to…

— Paul McCartney

“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a…

— Jason Arnopp

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

— Paul McCartney

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”

— Joanne Harris