Death Quote by DeWitt Wallace

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

— Carl Sandburg

“When you hold hands with the dead, eventually they pull you into the grave. ”

— Steven Montano

“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…

— David Vann

“We carry the dead in our hands as we might carry water - with a careful, reverential tread. There is no other way. How…

— John Glenday

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats…

— Jenny Downham

“There were pockets within pockets, with a CorpSeCorps hand in each one of them.”

— Margaret Atwood

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

— Ferenc Molnar

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

— Tim O'Brien

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while,…

— John Banville

“The first duty of their successors was to dispose of their remains”

— Kurt Vonnegut