Dead people Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only…

— Rachel Vincent

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was…

— Josephine Baker

“Writing the forenames and family names of the victims down, with no other detail of age, or place, would fill twenty books. To begin…

— Philip Gourevitch

One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

— Charles Starkweather

You usually have to die anonymously in order to make a really big name for yourself.

— Christine Anderson

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

— Ferenc Molnar

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record…

— Michael Holroyd

People long dead were talked about as familiarly as though they had only just left the room.

— Richard Perceval Graves

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

— Harold Pinter

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

— Rick Moody

If you want a name, you have to fight death.

— Milkha Singh