Quote by Erich Maria Remarque

“He it is still and yet it is not he any longer.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be,…

— Josephine Humphreys

“He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling…

— Caroline Green

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he…

— Elena Ferrante

“He would sit singing, his cheeks turning red above his whiskers; but his voice always came out deep and steady, like the sound of…

— Ruth Moore

“Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.”

— Janet Gurtler

“I nod and wonder what to say to encourage him. His lips have fallen away, his mouth has become larger, his teeth stick out…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.”

— Frances Hardinge

“It's not the dead even. They're gone. Nothing you can do about that. It's what's left behind - the echo. These woods you're walking…

— Harlan Coben

“He’s gone, incinerated for all time. I am the ashes left behind, soaked with too many tears, and burdened with an infinite future I…

— Katherine Owen

“If we can only be still, we shall behold, the beauty of a still voice.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita