Death Quote by George Eliot

“Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.”

— Abraham Verghese

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”

— Jasper Fforde

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Death...does this to people. It slaps the living upside the head and it makes us ponder and exchange events and feelings that might stay…

— Kris Radish

“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of…

— Sylvia Plath

“The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death”

— Charles Dickens

“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse…

— Chris Cleave

“I was finally beginning to perceive that no matter how many dead people I might see, or people at the instant of their death,…

— Jonathan Littell

“The aftermath of someone’s death is vertiginous, a murky, shimmering mass; to look at it head-on is to see only the fog of emotion.…

— Nicole Rudick