Dead Quote by David Hare

“The Dordogne in 1984 was the nadir. Diarrhea, moths like flying hamsters, the blowtorch heat. Awake at three in the morning on a damp…

— Mark Haddon

“The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

— Harold Pinter

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

— Elie Wiesel

“At the same time, it seemed certain to me that someday I would really want to hear his voice and wouldn't be able to,…

— Elif Batuman

“I began with the desire to speak with the dead.”

— Stephen Greenblatt

“It’s maddeningly painful not to be able to speak with the dead. But maybe what Zelda was trying to tell me is that it’s…

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“They are going to kill us, so I shall speak as my dead self, which is my best self.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

— John French Sloan

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not…

— John Green

“The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.”

— Erin McKean

“Can you speak to the dead…like your sister?" Ms. Dupré's body seems to loosen, and her voice gets soft as a feather against your…

— Thomas Fahy