Dead People Quotes

“Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“People you love never die. That is what Omai had said, all those years ago. And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.”
― Claudia Gray, Afterlife

“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people, William,”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“She said she was a clairvoyant. She saw dead people. She saw things even before she was born.”
― Eli Wilde, Cruel

“The dead are held in such high esteem that we only remember the good things, and we not only forgive their faults but we forget them.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

“You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?

The Sixth Sense.

Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“The old and the dead are the most rewarding people to idolize, because they know things that we don't.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“Bir yaşantıyı sonuna kadar sürekli izlemenin,bitirmenin bir çeşit ölmek olduğunu hissediyor.Yarım yaşantılar sürdürerek,bütün ölümlerden kaçıyor..”
― Oğuz Atay, Günlük

“It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect.”
― Erica Waters, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

“He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realised it might lead only to the grave.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

“Every night I want to be Heathcliff with Cathy tapping at the window. I want to be Hamlet on the windy battlements. I want the Flying Dutchman to dock. I want what everyone who has lost someone wants: a visitation.

Every second, someone dying is promising to come back from the dead. Every hour, waiting for it to happen, someone living notches up another hour lost.

For the Dead, time stops. For the living, time slows. I am in slow-motion now. It takes me twice as long to clean my teeth, half the morning to make coffee and wash the cup. When I go shopping, I don't remember what I need.

That's because it's you I need. I stare at the bag of potatoes, the packet of bacon. Absurd. Go home.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

“It’s strange,
we expect the dead to make noise,
as if their silence isn’t enough to fill the space.”
― Maimoona Abidi, A Shelf of Things I Never Said

“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

“We are busy feeding the dead.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead man as the natural order of things.”
― Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country

“The soul is the only difference between human beings and the dead.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“...one day Jean-Guy Beauvoir understood that when people died, they didn't go away. They were very much alive in the minds, in the hearts, in the vivid memories of those left behind.

And they were not always easy to live with. Some ghosts had demands.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

“People who will spend their entire life dead will be buried twice.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“People who spend their entire life dead will be buried twice.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“From the perspective of the dead, life was a dangerous thing: a world of bullets, with everyone dodging everyone else, and no one to blame but God or the cosmos, contingency or fate, whoever had fired the gun.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

“Shelved around us lie the mummied authors.”
― Bayard Taylor

“After a total of about ten man-hours of stitching, gluing, filling, and applying makeup, his head still didn’t look right. Dead people never look right.”
― Caleb Wilde, Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

“There is only one dead end in life—that's when you're dead.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“So far, the end of the world has come only for the dead.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Madame Chalamet is a professional. I let her talk with my dead bodies all the time.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“Explaining their point of view seemed to be a universal thing amongst the dead.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“I wondered if it was right to instruct the fashion models to walk with poker faces, dead eyes and devoid of emotions when all we really want is to be truly seen, understood and have our feelings comprehended. The shells that the models created around them while walking gave out a message that we are wanted only when we are surrounded by these shells, hiding our innermost feelings behind poker faces. The catwalk seemed more like a soulless promotion of impossible body image standards to an audience who reflected on their 'imperfect' body types throughout the fashion show. The models appeared as though they could neither give nor accept empathy, a trait that makes us human. I wondered what kind of society was being portrayed to the audience as the fashion models appeared emotionally distant and somber. People should be reminded to foster loving connections, embrace their true selves, prioritize fitness, joy, and health; unlike the fashion models.”
― Namrata Gupta, White Horses Dark Shadows: A Modern Day Intense Romance | A story about finding True Love

“The terrible energy of the dead.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke