Quote by Rebecca Hill

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

“[...], the soul of man lives in his language.”

— Anouar Majid

“Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.”

— Ariel Sabar

“And as for my soul-- I saw black fire sweeping the village, heard the anguished screams. What use would I have for a soul,…

— Heather Fawcett

“Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are thrown.”

— Laura Bynum

“but he was afraid of being insincere and telling lies in the presence of death. It was on a fine winter’s day, shot through…

— Albert Camus

“You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have a river…

— Neil Gaiman

“The only messages from the dead that I’d heard had sounded as if they came from creatures that had lost their minds.”

— Louis L'Amour

“The tongue speaks, and the heart shouts, but the soul screams.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in…

— Philip Reeve

“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some…

— Vicente Aleixandre

“Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.”

— Susan Waterwyk