Death Quote by Abraham Verghese

“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.”

— Erika Robuck

“The past inspires the future, just as the dead inspire the living.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.”

— Anne Rice

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A sudden, unanticipated death has a way of jolting us to our senses. Life as you know it will never be the same. It…

— Keisha Blair

“Death is inevitable. Life is inevitable too. However, the timing is somewhat flexible.”

— Amelia Mysko

“Death is many things, including the beginning of something new.”

— Dawn Akemi

“Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
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— Jarod Kintz

“Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

— M.R. Gott

“This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and…

— Diana Gabaldon