Money Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“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 now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows…

— Zeina Kassem

“Death might part our bodies, but it will never part our hearts, our souls. Our love. Love like ours doesn’t die.”

— M. Leighton

“In the future, you'll live astride the line separating life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until…

— Rana Dasgupta

“We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our…

— Joan Didion

“Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am…

— Ishmael Beah

“I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir…

— Oscar Wilde

“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the wilderness it…

— Rick Yancey

“We don't want to know when we will die or when the people we love will betray us…we're hungry to know the dead before…

— Paul Auster Oracle Night

“sometimes the living are beholden to the dead”

— Scott Pearce

“He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in every century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what the lives…

— Neil Gaiman