Quote by John Green

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— 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

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 would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their souls, the…

— Donato Carrisi

“Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who are dead…

— Ivo Andrić

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

— L.M. Montgomery

“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

“Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the clarity of…

— Barry Eisler

“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 dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth…

— Tom Clancy

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

— Sarah Dessen

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero