Dies Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

— Ugo Betti

“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things…

— Marcel Proust

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food.…

— Margaret George

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add…

— William Law

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

— Yasmin Mogahed

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

— Sophocles

“Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.”

— Michael E. Moseley

“prehistoric humans who discovered death reacted by celebrating life. Through self-adornment and embellishment, they affirmed their existence, defying the final tragedy to come. They…

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

“Death gives a reason to our lives. More important then that, death creates a special value for time. If our time on earth was…

— Marilena Chauí