--- title: "11 Dead Speak Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Dead Speak quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Dead Speak sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/heinrich-b-ll-13574_dead_if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-n_1466091.png" --- > [If the dead could speak there would be no more war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-b-ll/if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-no-more-war/) [Heinrich Böll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-b-ll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/heinrich-b-ll-13574_dead_if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-n_1466091.png) > [“The dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerri-maniscalco/the-dead-speak-to-those-who-listen-be-quieter-than-even-them/) [Kerri Maniscalco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerri-maniscalco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/kerri-maniscalco-12270_communication_the-dead-speak-to-those-who-listen-be-qu_2120050.jpg) > [When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plutarch/when-one-told-plistarchus-that-a-notorious-railer-spoke-well-of-him-i/) [Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plutarch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87c/plutarch-597_lays_when-one-told-plistarchus-that-a-notorio_3142255.jpg) > [“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-galbraith/the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mouths-of-those-left-behind-and/) [Robert Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-galbraith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/robert-galbraith-3411_dead_the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mo_1800789.jpg) > [The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-cultural-treasures-of-the-past-believed-to-be-dead-are-being-made/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/822/hannah-arendt-610_courses_the-cultural-treasures-of-the-past-belie_2074478.jpg) > [ If they \[the dead\] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-they-the-dead-should-speak-it-would-be-found-that-in-matters-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/mark-twain-22_dead_if-they-the-dead-should-speak-it-would-b_285979.png) > [“The certainty that someone will never come back," the narrator muses of the dead, "never speak again, never take another step…will never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-mar-as/the-certainty-that-someone-will-never-come-back-the-narrator-muses-of/) [Javier Marías](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-mar-as/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/javier-mar-as-2874_doubt_the-certainty-that-someone-will-never-co_1267085.png) > [Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/are-they-dead-that-yet-speak-louder-than-we-can-speak-and-a-more/) [Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b5/henry-ward-beecher-175_dead_are-they-dead-that-yet-speak-louder-than_2153933.jpg) > [“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them. Strike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-galbraith/the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mouths-of-those-left-behind-and-2/) [Robert Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-galbraith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/robert-galbraith-3411_friendship_the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mo_3229334.jpg) > [“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/connie-willis/they-say-the-dead-can-t-speak-but-they-can-the-people-in-this-book/) [Connie Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/connie-willis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/connie-willis-5208_books_they-say-the-dead-can-t-speak-but-they-c_1035831.png) > [“So I say this. Speak of them. Speak of those that died. Speak of all those who ever died--in all the world's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-fletcher/so-i-say-this-speak-of-them-speak-of-those-that-died-speak-of-all/) [Susan Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-fletcher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05e/susan-fletcher-11692_death_so-i-say-this-speak-of-them-speak-of-tho_360327.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dead-speak/#itemlist", "name": "Dead Speak Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If the dead could speak there would be no more war.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Heinrich Böll" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-b-ll/if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-no-more-war/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/heinrich-b-ll-13574_dead_if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-n_1466091.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/heinrich-b-ll-13574_dead_if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-n_1466091.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/heinrich-b-ll-13574_dead_if-the-dead-could-speak-there-would-be-n_1466091.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If the dead could speak there would be no more war.” — Heinrich Böll", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The dead speak to those who listen. 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Strike had felt the living woman behind the words she had written to friends; he had heard her voice on a telephone held to his ear; but now, looking down on the last thing she had ever seen in her life, he felt strangely close to her.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Galbraith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-galbraith/the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mouths-of-those-left-behind-and-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/robert-galbraith-3411_friendship_the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mo_3229334.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/robert-galbraith-3411_friendship_the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mo_3229334.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/robert-galbraith-3411_friendship_the-dead-could-only-speak-through-the-mo_3229334.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered…” — Robert Galbraith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! 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Speak of those that died. Speak of all those who ever died--in all the world's history, in its wars, and long-lost days. Speak of those who met their deaths in Glencoe, in snow--not of their deaths, but of their lives before them. Not of how they died, but of how they bent to pat a dog's head, or what ballads they could sing, or what their skin was like by their eyes when they smiled, or which weather was their weather--for it keeps them living. It stops them being dead. To do this--to speak or write of them--puts breath back in their mouths. It lifts them up from their earthy beds... brings them forth, and they stand by the side of the one who speaks of them; they walk out of the pages of those who write them down. From the realm, they smile upon us. 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