Cheerful Quote by Kate Atkinson

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home---my daily stations with the local lately dead---that the darkness would often give way to…

— Thomas Lynch

“Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to…

— Colum McCann

“People always talk about how great Deathday Letters are. About how they give people a chance to say goodbye. About how terrible the world…

— Shaun Hutchinson

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason…

— Gregory Maguire

“She could just imagine, all her friends and family mourning around her grave. The tombstone would read Kari Wagner, Died of Sheer Stupidity .…

— Cherise Sinclair

“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/​daughter/​friend” instead;…

— Claire Messud

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“Pathetic mortal,” the reaper sneered. “You disgust me, speaking of death so cavalierly yet cowering at a pale shadow of its visage. You don't…

— Christopher Kai

“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And…

— Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings

“I hope when I die, they won't put on my tombstone, 'He wrote Miss Jane Pittman .' Put anything else, but don't put just…

— Ernest J. Gaines

“Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.”

— Herman Melville