Behinds Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally, in one…

— Azar Nafisi

“The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a…

— Donna Tartt

“…the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of…

— W.G. Sebald

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

— Roland Barthes

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as…

— Kate Mosse

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes…

— Lucy Larcom

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the…

— Philip K. Dick

''It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas…

— Henrik Ibsen

An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory, but our sight? Ah, our…

— Desperate Housewives

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick…

— Louis Aragon

“Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I am aware…

— Vladimir Nabokov