Source: The Three Musketeers
“[Translated]: It is only the dead who do not return.”
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755–1841) French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most notorious members of the National Convention …
II n'ya que les morts qui ne reviennent pas.
Speech, 1794, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.”
Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“The only languages that do not change are dead ones.”
David Crystal (1941) British linguist and writer
Source: How Language Works, 2007, p. 357
Context: However language began, one thing is certain – it immediately began to change, and has been changing ever since. Languages are always in a state of flux. Change affects the way people speak as inevitably as it does any other area of human life. Language purists do not welcome it, but they can do very little about it. Language would stand still only if society did. A world of unchanging linguistic excellence, based on the brilliance of earlier literary forms, exists only in fantasy. The only languages that do not change are dead ones.
“the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Liar's Game
