Deserve Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of…

— Bryce Courtenay

Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a…

— Thomas Chalmers

“All things on earth and beneath it passed away, but music was immortal. Even if I was dead to the world above, a part…

— S. Jae-Jones

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of…

— Minae Mizumura

“Life is always a novel. Our existence may cease to be a song; it may cease even to be a beautiful lament. Our existence…

— Kevin Belmonte

“Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For how would…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them…

— Diane Setterfield

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they…

— Henry Rollins

“Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.”

— Nicholas A. McGirr

“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth…

— Brian M. Holmes

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into,…

— M. Ward