Book Quote by Egerton Brydges

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

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

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than…

— Tryon Edwards

“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and…

— Richard de Bury

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or…

— William Hazlitt

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

“It’s almost as if the dead have no value unless we know that someone they are related to is still alive and mourning them.”

— Ilona Andrews

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

— Anonymous

What's so noble about being dead?

— Dalton Trumbo