Quote by Sherman Alexie

“The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.”

— Otfried Preußler

“The dead do not haunt, no matter how much you beg them to.”

— Lancali

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

— Jennifer Latham

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

— Dean Koontz

“And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?”

— Franz Wright

“The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.”

— Sophie Jordan

“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2”

— Bruce M. Hood

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”

— Victor Hugo

“The dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

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

— Rabisankar Bal

“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”

— David Foster Wallace