Behinds Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different…

— John Hodgman

“Maybe the way death folds into the most private of spaces encourages us to underestimate the shattering weight of such a devastating loss. Perhaps…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything…

— Carrie Jones

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

“There’s something about death that gets our attention. When it’s close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to our most…

— Daniel Taylor

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“This way of behaving, this way of feeling, so hysterical, so sad, when someone has died, I don't like at all and would like…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and…

— Francesca Marciano

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring…

— Raymond Moody

“The expectation that we “get over” or “move on” from a profound loss or crisis is not only unrealistic, but it may even be…

— Ramon Presson

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