Death Quote by Deborah Eisenberg

“Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.”

— Vita Sackville-West

“A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves might be…

— Madeline Hunter

“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided…

— Brian Andreas

“We are all plants in God's great garden. His knowledge is our soil. With it we can live forever. Without it we wilt and…

— Calvin W. Allison

“They said nothing and our parents said nothing, so we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars. We realized…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick, though in…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea whether you…

— Naeem Murr

“A garden breaks the cycle of thoughts.”

— Gabriella Bennett

“After the death of my marriage, I was hell-bent on keeping the bird-of-paradise alive. I would take it slowly. Plants first. And if everything…

— Margot Berwin

“And the English soul, if it resided anywhere, was surely in some unheroic back garden—a patch of lawn, a bed of roses, a row…

— Kate Atkinson

“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths,…

— Vasily Grossman

“To this point, he could not really have said that he loved William. Feel the terror of responsibility for him, yes. Carry thought of…

— Diana Gabaldon