Death Quote by E.M. Forster

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late,…

— Anonymous

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“A wedding left the church and, meeting a funeral, walked three steps with the dead.”

— Jamie O'Neill

“Her death was not Her end”

— Emily Curtis

“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief…

— Truman Capote

“His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her religion, and…

— Isabel Allende

“She thought of death and of her own in particular: the death of her body and the death of her face.”

— William Trevor

“I had passed through many deaths since that night when she had been born in all her beauty; for is not “every step we…

— Olivia Shakespear

“...As she grew older, she was aware of her changing position on mortality. In her youth, the topic of death was philosophical; in her…

— Amy Tan

“She had her whole death ahead of her”

— Markus Zusak

“Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of…

— Rachel Hauck