Books Quote by David Brooks

“wasn’t it truly ironic that the sole surviving human—that’s what she felt like, after all—would be a journalist? The biggest news story ever and…

— Paul Antony Jones

“I've always heard that it's not nice to talk about the dead. But it seems to me that's the best time to talk about…

— Shelley Mickle

“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She never spoke…

— Salman Rushdie

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings.…

— Agatha Christie

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.”

— Arianna Huffington

“...to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their…

— Orson Scott Card

“She could just imagine, all her friends and family mourning around her grave. The tombstone would read Kari Wagner, Died of Sheer Stupidity .…

— Cherise Sinclair

“Someone here died, I realize. Someone these people loved and cared for. I’m not the only person in the world tangled up in grief.”

— Cat Hellisen

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

— John Arbuthnot

“Death should be known. Known as a difficult mental, physical, and emotional process, respected and feared for what it is.”

— Caitlin Doughty