Time Quote by Hilary Mantel

“some traveler from the undiscovered country. I know as well as I know anything the dead are simply dead.”

— Barry Eisler

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

— Dean Koontz

“There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept.”

— Karen White

“Everyone wishes they could speak again to those who've gone to the land of the dead.”

— Philip Pullman

“Going through the motions, like a person who was already dead and just didn’t know it yet.”

— Christa Faust

“-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been…

— Pär Lagerkvist

“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”

— Joanne Harris

“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2”

— Bruce M. Hood

“The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.”

— Otfried Preußler

“Be careful of whom you trust. Sometimes knowledge from the dead has a way of cursing the living.”

— Laura Thalassa

“Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know.”

— Kobi Yamada

“There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try.…

— Haruki Murakami