Death Quote by Henry H. Roth

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

— Charles Dickens

“It was the exact combination of the ephemeral and the eternal that a dying man needed to know about.”

— Jane Smiley

“I had met death before, in different forms--I knew quite well the pattern of my grieving. First came shock, and then tears, and then…

— Susanna Kearsley

“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

“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are…

— Thomas Mann

“Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.”

— Charles Bracelen Flood

“The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.”

— Otsuichi

“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is…

— Roland Barthes

“Death seemed to depict the finality of the hopelessness which is man’s lot alienated from God. It does not, however, mean loss of any…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Death doesn't frighten me, except to make me feel that life is ephemeral.”

— Miranda France

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

— Jasper Fforde