All things Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another…

— Ernest Hemingway

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

— Alexander Smith

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

— John Green

“There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better…

— Sophocles

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing…

— Eric Hoffer

“what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill…

— Rita Mae Brown

“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then…

— John Green

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is…

— Susan Sontag

I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.

— Cassandra Clare

Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent…

— Graham Greene

“Death is merely an illusion of the departed... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he or she…

— Lionel Suggs

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

— Clive Barnes