Bearing witness Quote by Ovadya ben Malka

“When we died, the only things we’d leave behind of importance were our deeds. Our corpses would rot and our treasured belongings would wind…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try.…

— Haruki Murakami

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

“The secrets that may be buried with a human heart.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what…

— Samantha Young

“‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to…

— Enrich M. Remarque

“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal…

— Carl Abrahamsson

“Don’t be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law. And those who live the mystery falsely and badly (and they are very…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite…

— Charles Dickens

“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not…

— David Malouf

“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