Dead Man Quotes

“It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.”
― Henri Michaux

“A dead man's dog ain't got a name.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“When someone dies on the other side of the world, it’s as if he’s been killed in a war or a shipwreck. Our eyes couldn’t see the dead man. There was no funeral, no ritual. Nothing. Just a telegram, a letter.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“Death is great for the appetites. How about those two girls and Gribble? They wanted to see what screwing a dead man felt like. Now for Something Completely New and Different. I don't know if Gribble got much out of it, but they sure as shit did. It's the same with anybody. It doesn't matter if they're eating or drinking or sitting on their cans. They like it better, they feel it and taste it better because they're watching dead men.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“...he was just another dead man on another road, answerless, the bearer of another unfathomable story about walking out of one world and into another.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“A promise to a dead man is sacred!”
― Christophe Chabouté, Alone

“To be a man of action may be honorable, but to be a dead man of action profits you nothing.”
― Justin Swapp, The Shadow's Servant

“How was it in any way possible to defend himself against the words of a dead man?”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Hanging Girl

“Thank God I don't have to pass judgement! Lord Geoffrey's accusations are troubling, and hard to disprove. But Count Alain is no fool. King Henry respected Lavastine, and as Alain said, it is harder to pass judgement on the actions of a dead man than on the worthiness of a living one."
"Do you think so? The dead man can't defend himself."
"But a good reputation is its own defense. It's harder to pass judgement exactly because he can't defend himself, because the whole of his life is laid out before you. Who are we, then, to decide we would have acted differently, and that our actions would have turned out for the better?”
― Kate Elliott, The Burning Stone

“A semi-cirque of flying rooks, just seven in number, flapped with creaking wings across the top of the tower, making their way northwest towards Mark Moor. Little did they reck of the cracking of the skull of a man upon a patch of grass! As for a tiny earth beetle that was foraging for its insect prey just there, it scurried away from Tom's blood as if it had been a lake of brimstone.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“Until I saw what happened to Mongo, I thought that getting canceled was the worst thing that could happen. Wrong. Being dead and not knowing it is much, much worse.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“You only have lost a deceased person. A deceased person has lost everything.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov