Circumstances Quote by Orville Dewey

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

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

“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 keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

— Alexander Smith

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

— James A. Michener

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 life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . .…

— Thornton Wilder

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

— Margaret Laurence

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

— Haruki Murakami