Quote by John Green

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

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

— Victor Hugo

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“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

“The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

— John Green

“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so…

— Natsuo Kirino

“The dead aren't the only ones who vanished: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you.”

— Sarah Dessen

“It's the sight of the dead...the teasing glimpse of what comes when you are no one.”

— Robert McDowell

“sometimes the living are beholden to the dead”

— Scott Pearce

“It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?”

— Lee Battersby