Keeping secrets Quote by Alexander Smith

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of…

— Orville Dewey

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

— Rick Riordan

“Whatever secrets the dead take with them, they should be allowed to keep. That's my new philosophy. Or put another way: the time to…

— David Maine

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

— Confucius

What shall we say who have knowledge Carried to the heart? Shall wetake the act To the grave? Shall we, more hopeful, set up…

— Anonymous

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no…

— William Penn

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

— Margaret Laurence

“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of…

— Courtney M. Privett

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

— John Green

“Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a…

— Sandy Fussell

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know…

— George Eliot

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

— Willa Cather