Quote by Neil Gaiman

“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a well-dusted house,…

— W.G. Sebald

“It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be,…

— Josephine Humphreys

“-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been…

— Pär Lagerkvist

“The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“I've been forgotten here. Left alone talking to lightning storms, studying the mysterious patterns the dust of dead people makes as it floats through…

— Samantha Hunt

“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was…

— George Orwell

“We're nothing. We're dust.”

— Aaron Dries

“Talking, talking, spinning like a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.”

— John Gardner

“There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.”

— Anthony Trollope

“There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.”

— Elif Shafak

“But again, it’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears and past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

“quietly. “To the cliffs and caves, while we have the sun.” “There you go. They can’t come out. Nothing”

— Nora Roberts