All religions Quote by W. G. Sebald

“People have rituals for communing with the dead, rituals that depend more on the idiosyncrasies of the individual than on the influence of culture.…

— Barry Eisler

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from…

— Aleksandar Hemon

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather…

— Sophie Dahl

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

— Clarice Lispector

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

— Deepak Chopra

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

— Edmund Burke

“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.”

— Richard J. Borden

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

— Anonymous

I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of…

— John O'Donohue