You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder…

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“This was trouble--of the bury-your-dead variety.”

— J.R. Ward

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The past was finished; let the dead bury their dead.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Let each day bury its dead.”

— Val Edward Simone

“Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.”

— Robert Bloch

“Let the dead bury the dead, Sassenach,” he said softly. “The past is gone—the future is not come. And we are here together, you…

— Diana Gabaldon

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

— Mike Schmidt

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

— Bob Dylan

Let the dead bury the dead.

— Harper Lee

“Anyway, if you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive.”

— Terry Pratchett

“If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”

— Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

— Willa Cather

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

— Terry Pratchett

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could…

— Daniel Everett