Quote by Jessie Evans

“People should live the very best life possible. Too many had died so that others could.”

— Heather Burch

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better was lost. Or not lost,…

— Nicholas Eames

“They were lonely and sad people, all three of them, and they would not make one another less sad, but they could, with great…

— Yiyun Li

“Life and Death took a break, weary from their burdensome role. Nobody lived or died that day.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“There are not so many kind persons in the world to let them go so easy. The best ones stay with us forever.”

— Vladislav Trofimov

“There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.”

— Colson Whitehead

“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

“He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.”

— Denis Johnson

“Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people…

— Rose Wynters

“It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that's the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“He lay there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew…

— A.M. Homes