“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Above all, there has never been a community that did not cohabit with its dead. But today, socially, the dead are no… — Barbara Duden Copy Share Image
“Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should take an oath I must have… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleeping, that I… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Come here into the candlelight. I’m not afraid to look at the dead. For when the dead come they have as much… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I have my dead and I have let them go and been surprised, to see them so consoled, so soon at home… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People';… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature, They fit very well in the landscape under the trees… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor , is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image