Death Quote by Herman Melville

“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated…

— Guy Sajer

“I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as from remorse…

— Henry Miller

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no…

— William Penn

“I wasn't dead. This meant something. We all take our lives for granted so often, we forget that this, right here, this moment, is…

— Tabatha Beshears

“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope…

— Ron Rash

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so…

— Natsuo Kirino

“So. Lazarus returns from the dead at last. I was wondering when you were going to surface. You’re like a bad penny. Never know…

— J.T. Ellison

“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

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure…

— Vaddey Ratner