Blight Quote by Louise Glück

“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

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

— John Green

“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation…

— Benjamin Percy

“In a feverish fantasy, I imagined that there had been a time, when the world was young, that stars filled the sky - made…

— Megan Arkenberg

“He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it…

— Donna Tartt

“Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the…

— Anonymous

“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before…

— James Baldwin

“It’s strange how we feel the need to connect with death. Look at it up close, so we can almost touch it. Like the…

— Riccardo Bruni

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard

“We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives”

— Brian L. Weiss

“Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a nest of…

— Hannah Kent

“By the way, don’t ever let someone convince you that there’s anything — and I mean anything — good about dying. There is nothing…

— Ron Currie Jr