Art Quote by Dennis Nilsen

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an…

— Alison Weir

“At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality…

— Jon Krakauer

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my…

— Zack Love

“I’d had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn’t something you ever really got used to. It seemed oddly inevitable, though,…

— Anonymous

“And I— soft, weak, obscene, digesting, juggling with dismal thoughts— I, too, was In the way . Fortunately, I didn’t feel it, although I…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before…

— James Baldwin

“Death was the greatest villain, no matter how it got you; it always had the same outcome. It chewed you up and spit you…

— Holly Hood

“And this author thinks that understanding why they died is the best and most fitting memorial we can raise for the victims. Letting their…

— Prunier, Gérard

“Death did this to people: making cowards, scapegoats, preachers and mourners of the living; while the dead – ignoble or not – became objects…

— Meghna Pant

“It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens, choosing a…

— Libba Bray

“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of…

— John Fowles