Bed Quote by Robert Graves

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead…

— Washington Irving

The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a…

— Alice Sebold

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut…

— Edvard Munch

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

— 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 dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

“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

The old echoes are long in dying.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal…

— Anthony Thwaite

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“There was still a bit of sunshine in the sky, not that it mattered. High treetops and reaching branches entombed us from above in…

— Thomas McClellan