Quote by James Lee Burke

“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.”

— Jennifer Latham

“The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the living people,…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“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

“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

“Sometimes I think the dead have it easy. The difficult part is staying alive, and more than that, wanting to stay alive.”

— Andrea Busfield

“Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.”

— Kate Atkinson

“The dead were not so scary. The living were the ones you had to watch out for.”

— Laura Thalassa

“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

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.”

— Alice Sebold

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”

— Victor Hugo

“Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?”

— Isaiah

“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