People Quote by Richard Perceval Graves

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

— Willa Cather

“Has anyone ever been able to prevent the dead from talking to one another?”

— Rabisankar Bal

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

— Harold Pinter

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed…

— Mark Twain

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”

— Robert Galbraith

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

— Ferenc Molnar

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

— Dean Koontz

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

— Margot Asquith

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

— J. K. Rowling