Death Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

— Jeanette Winterson

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

— Jeanette Winterson

Life was a pre-death experience.

— Jeanette Winterson

“…when the dying sun bled the blue sky orange.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Love is as strong as death.”

— Jeanette Winterson

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

— Jeanette Winterson

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss…

— Jeanette Winterson

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange…

— Jeanette Winterson

“You can't make sense of your passion for life in the face of death, you can only give up your passion. Only…

— Jeanette Winterson

“After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, "I fuck therefore I…

— Jeanette Winterson

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words,…

— Jeanette Winterson

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for…

— Jeanette Winterson

“This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will…

— Jeanette Winterson

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A star the size of a…

— Jeanette Winterson

“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want…

— Jeanette Winterson

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of…

— Jeanette Winterson

When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned…

— Jeanette Winterson

“You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love…

— Jeanette Winterson