Death Quote by Mary Campisi

“She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated,…

— Shirley Hazzard

“all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and…

— James Baldwin

“All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.”

— Susan Griffin

“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood…

— Alice Hoffman

“The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.”

— Johan Galtung

“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I remember thinking, “How does anyone survive something like this? And if they do, what kind of person comes out the other end?” I…

— Neil Peart

“He carried more grief than she could imagine, yet lived life with such joy it spread to everyone around him. Despite that grief. Despite…

— Julie E. Czerneda

“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief…

— Truman Capote

“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic, vacuum-sealed like…

— Lionel Shriver

“They saw their bodies as so pure that they were not ashamed, no matter who might see them, and they regarded their bodies as…

— Jim C. Cunningham