Day of the dead Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“This is the feast of our mortality, the most mundane and human holiday.”

— Dana Gioia

“The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground’s too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms…

— George R.R. Martin

“Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.”

— Joe Bousquet

“Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while we carry…

— Toby Barlow

“We’re beings toward death, we’re featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of…

— Cornel West

“The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is…

— N.J. Dawood

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,…

— Dean Koontz

“Since Christmas they have lived with us, Guileless and clear, Oval soul-animals, Taking up half the space, Moving and rubbing on the silk”

— Sylvia Plath

“And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not…

— Isaiah

“Let each day bury its dead.”

— Val Edward Simone

“When you get back, I finally wrote, let's lay ourselves down in the fields outside, and sleep there for the night, whatever the weather.…

— Tiffany Baker

“We may forget our dead, but dead will never forget us. They call upon us from the border of unknown, reminding us of our…

— Pierre Van Paassen