Death of a loved one Quote by allimachus and Lycophron CXLII

“So long she held on in this mourning manner, that, what by the continuall watering of the Basile, and putrifaction of the head, so…

— Giovanni Boccaccio

“Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue: Taken from life when life and love…

— Oscar Wilde

“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed…

— H. Rider Haggard

“A few hours later, Françoise was able for the last time, and without causing pain, to comb that beautiful hair, which was only slightly…

— PROUST MARCEL

“For, in those centuries, when numbers of children died in the cradle and half the women in childbirth, when epidemics ravaged adult life, when…

— Maurice Druon

“They sat beside the stone, and did not speak again; and when the sun went down Morwen sighed and clasped his hand, and was…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Desiree the child bride, and her sister Miranda, had gone grave-robbing for a wedding gown. In the north end of the cemetery, among the…

— Timothy Schaffert

“was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his”

— Oscar Wilde

“It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out…

— Emily Dickinson

“The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the…

— Bram Stoker

“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I…

— John William Polidori

“COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL   In the deserted park, silent and vast, Erewhile two shadowy glimmering figures passed.   Their lips were colorless, and dead their…

— Paul Verlaine