As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Or say we have two rival dictators in a death grudge. Assuming ED289/290 develops nicely in pill form, allow me to slip… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whole idea is really intriguing to me. If you took snapshots of ourselves throughout the day, the way that our mind is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. roger bevins iii It was the nature of things. hans vollman… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“If/when I die, do not want Pam lonely. Want her to remarry, have full life. As long as new husband is nice… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Did he still want it? Did he still want to live? Yes, yes, oh, God, yes, please. Because, O.K., the thing was—he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One feels such love for the little ones, such anticipation that all that is lovely in life will be known by them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth.… — George Saunders Copy Share
We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death… — George Saunders Copy Share
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are… — George Saunders Copy Share
![“All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/859/george-saunders-317_belief_all-of-this-strife-on-the-political-fron_610812.jpg)
