The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
The dead govern the living.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.