Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“Dead men did tell tales if you knew how to listen.”

— John Oakes

“The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they…

— Håkan Nesser

“I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves…

— Andrea Portes

“I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when it is…

— Lord Dunsany

“Often, I felt there was something unsaid behind them, a deeper interpretation I was supposed to take from it and I wondered just how…

— Nicky James

“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed…

— Leland Hall

“Life was full for me. There were so many things to find out and a lot I had to prove to myself. The days…

— James Herriot

“Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green grass, the…

— Julie Otsuka

“If its deep mystery we would sound;”

— Lao Tzu

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“By the time we returned, he’d always be three sheets to the wind, shouting into the sky and having conversations with the ghosts that…

— Christopher Motz

“They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge