Character Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

— Edmund Burke

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been…

— Anonymous

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

— Clarice Lispector

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

— Dora Russell

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

— Ron Chernow

As the dead lingers around, the living person suffers in the end

— Anonymous

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as…

— Kate Mosse

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those…

— Anna Godbersen

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

— Hamilcar Barca

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

— Jon Richardson

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

— Margaret Atwood