Choir Quote by George Eliot

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

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

— Anonymous

The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you…

— Frederick Lenz

“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

Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with…

— Heinrich Heine

“The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music…

— Fern Schumer Chapman

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

— Anonymous

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect...I digress, but here's the rub: The dead are…

— John Green

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

— Sophocles

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

— Sarah Strohmeyer

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