Quote by Tobias Wade

“sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form,”

— George Eliot

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

“I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats us, even if all…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“We mourn for the dead, but it's a selfish act. It may be a tragedy that so many young lives are lost to us,…

— Jenny Penn

“We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.”

— Clive Barker

“cloying your-best-friend’s-dead sympathy that will drive”

— Gayle Forman

“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

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

— Haruki Murakami

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,…

— Dean Koontz

“Die as a sacrifice is more worthy then a suicide”

— Mitch Albom

“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps; no love,…

— Juliet Marillier