T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.”
“The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.”
“The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.”
“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
Source: The Cuckoo's Calling
“The dead do not harm us, only the alive.”
Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel
“The dead do not haunt, no matter how much you beg them to.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”
Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
“The Dead do not meddle.”
Source: The Twins of Strathnaver
“The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain.
not shoes
but a place to
walk.
not cigarettes,
they tell us,
but a place to
burn.
or we're told:
space and a place to
fly
might be the
same.
the dead don't need
me.
nor do the
living.
but the dead might need
each
other.
in fact, the dead might need
everything we
need
and
we need so much
if we only knew
what it
was.
it is
probably
everything
and we will all
probably die
trying to get
it
or die
because we
don't get
it.
I hope
you will understand
when I am dead
I got
as much
as
possible.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.”
Source: Wintergirls
“The dead dog had come more than a hundred miles to find its master.
[Mademoiselle Cocotte]”
Source: The Entire Original Maupassant Short
“The dead don't feel. The dead don't dream. They rot, they decay”
Source: Of Vengeance and Ashes
“The dead don’t give up anything, but the living do.”
Source: St. Patrick's Day Murder
“The dead don’t judge. They don’t leave. They just lie there, cool and quiet, waiting for you to do whatever you need. And when you’re done, they keep your secret better than any living thing ever could.”
Source: Ghoul Car: The Road Never Ends
“The dead don't write letters. But the one I opened had her handwriting.”
Source: The Wringler: A Letter From Home
“The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.”
Source: The Stone Angel
“The dead don't bother with particulars.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji”
“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”
“The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.”
“The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.”
“the dead fear the mouth of the invisible
it is distant from tongues
& nearer to the truth than all of creation
lest sorrow become the fruit of the vision
the years of mercy & dust
that circle the illusion
that suffering makes pure”
Source: The Longest Breath: lost notebooks
“The dead girl blinked first one eye, and then the other. “Do you remember the island, Chen Mei Chi?”
Source: The Girl with a Thousand Faces
“The dead govern the living.”
Source: System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order
“The dead guy looked at me with wide eyes. “I can’t move my legs.” I snorted. “You can’t move your arms either, or your feet or your freaking eyelids. You’re dead.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.”
“The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.”
Source: The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing
“The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up”
“The dead have a presence.”
Source: White Noise
“The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors.”
Source: My Soul to Take
“The dead have need of fairy tales too.”
Source: The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998
“The dead have never bothered me. It is the living I fear.”
Source: Postmortem
“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”
“The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.”
Source: Elegy Owed
“The dead have no enemies”
“The dead have no notion of time.”
“The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.”
“The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.”
“The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”
“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”
“The dead leaf comes to life with the wind! He ascends to heights he has never known; migrates to places he never knew; he encounters trees he has never heard of, meets oceans he has never seen! Death takes the soul of the leaf, but the wind gives him a soul again!”
“The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”
“The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam”
“The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.”
“The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.”
“The dead loved promises; the living loved promising.”
“The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.”