Books Quote by Tryon Edwards

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

The dead are way more organized than the living.

— China Mieville

The dead should not rule the living

— Thomas Jefferson

The dead are too much with us.

— Roger Zelazny

“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a…

— Jason Arnopp

The dead governs the living.

— Auguste Comte

The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about.

— John Wayne Gacy

The dead govern the living.

— Auguste Comte

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

— John French Sloan

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea