Death Quote by Jane Austen

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman

“Her sadness had given her a serenity which had not been there before. It was as if she had learned a hard lesson: that…

— Philippa Gregory

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

— Grace Metalious

“she thought of all the years that had led up to this—all those seconds and minutes and hours, spent elsewhere, with others, doing other…

— Laura Barnett

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“She had realized something over the recent months: it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered…

— Lindy Zart

“She had to think about the future, her mother said. Marriage. She was sixteen now. It was time. The word made her sick to…

— Kimberly Cutter

“She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where…

— Madhu Vajpayee

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no…

— Colm Tóibín

“What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by.…

— Elizabeth Hay