Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“Only the dead could afford oblivion.”
Source: (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 5
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“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive. If only the dead could talk, eh, Lucian?”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 54.
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part III: Fire in Copenhagen
“The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.”
Mat, about Olver
(11 October 2005)
“Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur, earliest source found is work of George Santayana who doesn't attribute it to anyone. Plato and his dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE, "Frequently Asked Questions about Plato : Did Plato write "Only the dead have seen the end of war"?" http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm
Source: Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), "Tipperary"
As translated by Stanley Kunitz
In those years only the dead smiled,
Glad to be at rest:
And Leningrad city swayed like
A needless appendix to its prisons.
Translated by D. M. Thomas
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Prologue