Death Quote by Rosie Thomas

“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls…

— Joshua Ferris

“The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?”

— James Aquilone

“But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.”

— K. Martin Beckner

“The one similarity among all the people in the history is, they died alive.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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

— J.K. Rowling

“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

“We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens…

— Ray Loriga

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“It wasn’t the dead who suffered, but the living.”

— Susan Illene

“I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.”

— Jarod Kintz