Life-in-a-jar Quote by Irena Sendler

“If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“This is what our world is now: the dead, the lost, the wounded. Could I have done anything about it? Could I have prevented…

— Marieke Nijkamp

“The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?”

— James Aquilone

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

— Haruki Murakami

“I was recruited by the dead,’ Zak said. ‘Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to…

— Greg Egan

“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a…

— Jason Arnopp

“It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for. Or die for.”

— Magnus Flyte

“How much of what we do, from the ridiculous to the sublime, would not be done if we did not die? In tha blank…

— Thomas Lynch

“We could only pay attention to one dying person at a time.”

— Michael Kimball

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

— Katherine Mansfield

“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would…

— Eleanor Catton

“Death would think itself real without an official protest from the dead person’s greatest ally.”

— Victor Lodato