About Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

“Where I grew up, death is a constant visitor. A virus, bacteria, a parasite; drought and famine; soldiers, and torturers; could bring it to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers had a…

— Rutger Bregman

“After so much death, it was a wonder anyone remained in the country at all. No one really knows the population of Somalia but,…

— Ben Rawlence

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

— Anna Freud

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood,…

— Leigh Hunt

“There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened during the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below ground in…

— Gene Wolfe

“Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered:…

— Marisa de los Santos

“We need individual stories. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, ‘casualties may rise to a million’. With…

— Neil Gaiman

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as…

— Kate Mosse

“It is a strange thing how quickly our bodies die. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone…

— Seth Grahame-Smith