End of life Quote by Donna Tartt

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These…

— Hugh Howey

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and…

— Catherine McKenzie

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence

“She says that she held on to the memory as if it were a touchstone, something that could anchor her. She knows, has always…

— Madeleine Thien

“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery,…

— Georges Bernanos

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for…

— Graham Greene

“Humans were temporal. They aged and, eventually, died. And while she could have dwelled on her tendency to morbidly fixate on this quality, she…

— Marilyn Brant

“It’s already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from…

— Ian McEwan

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell