Dreams Quote by Scott G. Bruce

“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

“They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep…

— E. Nesbit

“The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a…

— Donna Tartt

“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

“I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Dean Koontz

“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.…

— Alice Sebold

“It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?”

— Lee Battersby

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

“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.”

— Jennifer Latham

“We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?”

— W.B. Yeats

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