Compute Quote by Andrew Buchan

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number.…

— Alastair Reynolds

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure…

— Gus Van Sant

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will…

— Jim Bishop

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

— Mark Twain

There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry…

— Anne Michaels

When someone dies, it makes you look at life a little more different.

— Dyllan

I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure…

— Gus Van Sant

It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You…

— Joan Didion

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that…

— Julian Barnes

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact…

— Anonymous