Quote by J.T. Ellison

“It was like a game without an end. Inside each of the tens of thousands of identical cardboard boxes lay a puzzle waiting to…

— Daniel Cole

“The things I need to say can only be written furtively on scraps of smuggled paper, in moments of time stolen from the dead…

— Ovadya ben Malka

“There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their…

— Mildred Armstrong Kalish

“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted for viewing,…

— Don DeLillo

“It was all as it had been, except for the weight of the present, that scuttled the pact we made with heaven. In truth…

— John Ashbery

“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the…

— Neil Gaiman

“I wrote something for my local newspaper, but nobody read it because it got buried in the obituary section.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garland's dead, And all but he departed!”

— Thomas Moore

“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the illusory ties…

— Henri Barbusse

“We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape,…

— Greg Gifune

“The past was finished; let the dead bury their dead.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither…

— Christopher Morley