Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
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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“Once I’m dead, I can afford to be patient.”
John Barnes book Mother of Storms
Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 350
“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive. If only the dead could talk, eh, Lucian?”
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Source: City of Fallen Angels
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 54.
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part III: Fire in Copenhagen
“The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Mat, about Olver
(11 October 2005)
“Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
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"
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
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