“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”

“We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.”

“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body…”

“Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits.”

“Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.”

“New England's dead. New England's dead!
On every hill they lie;
On every field of strife, made red
By bloody victory.”

“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”