Quote by George MacDonald

“At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a…

— Maurice Blanchot

“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of…

— Nenia Campbell

“there is no dead matter," he taught us, "lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life. The range of these…

— Bruno Schulz

“Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond…

— G.A. McKevett

“Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘Self’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.”

— Meredith Duran

“She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit suffused with its own mystery and sweetness, she was filled with her vast death, which…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when,…

— Olivia Sudjic

“But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was…

— Nella Larsen