Ambition Quote by Thornton Wilder

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as…

— Kate Mosse

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of…

— Orville Dewey

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

— James A. Michener

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

— Anonymous

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those…

— Anna Godbersen

Well, I cant say much about that, because I never hear off anyone who dead, and come back and tell we how they stay.

— Laurel Aitken

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

— Joan Didion

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

— Dora Russell

The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been…

— Anonymous

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a…

— Og Mandino

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I…

— Joan Didion

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

— James Montgomery