Death Quote by Hassan Blasim

“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.”

— Hassan Blasim

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible…

— Sue Grafton

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,…

— Dean Koontz

“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of…

— Courtney M. Privett

“Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.”

— Anthony Loyd

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no…

— William Penn

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“Those who have died live in coffins while those who live die in waiting for death. Some people wait patiently for death to come,…

— Jules Haigler

“We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make…

— John Green

“...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for…

— Rosie Thomas