Art Quote by Alison Weir

“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the wilderness it…

— Rick Yancey

“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong to those,…

— Oscar Wilde

“He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We fear death,…

— Hermann Hesse

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.”

— Declan McGonagle

“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory…

— Donna Tartt

“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse…

— Chris Cleave

“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer