Death Quote by Colum McCann

“She has come to stay, to be with Claire for a day or two. To sleep in the spare room. To accompany her dying,…

— Colum McCann

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and…

— Anne Ursu

“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little trick of…

— Richard Yates

“It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once. These days, I don't envy…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Her mother used to say a woman's life was suffering, but that was the last thing she wanted for this sweet girl who had…

— Min Jin Lee

“Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took…

— Leigh Bardugo

“She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter followed…

— I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett

“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie,…

— May Sarton

“That night, JoAnn didn't want to leave, but she knew she had to go. She understood, in that quiet hour, things that only people…

— Monica Holloway

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

“As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just…

— Margaret Mitchell