Language Quote by Shion Miura

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The only messages from the dead that I’d heard had sounded as if they came from creatures that had lost their minds.”

— Louis L'Amour

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

— Dean Koontz

“I began with the desire to speak with the dead.”

— Stephen Greenblatt

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

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

— Rabisankar Bal

“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 like puppets: even when their own words are brought forth, they are ventriloquized by the living.”

— Nicole Rudick

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

— Otfried Preußler

“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some…

— Vicente Aleixandre

“Our words contain the power of life and death.”

— Joyce Meyer