People We Love Quote by Paul Auster Oracle Night

“The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so…

— Natsuo Kirino

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,…

— Dean Koontz

“Do you think the dead don’t know what they’ve lost? Don’t you ever wonder why they seek human flesh? That maybe it’s their way…

— Carrie Ryan

“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”

— John Ruskin

“You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.”

— Zadie Smith

“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

“The dead are jealous, jealous, jealous and they will do anything to keep you from the living, the lucky living. They will argue with…

— M. Rickert

“You always know when somebody's dead.”

— Kevin Bergeron

“Death is the stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" -- and find…

— Eckhart Tolle

“I used to toy with the notion that when we die we find out what our lives have amounted to, finally. I'd never imagined…

— Anne Tyler

“When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead_”

— Tasos Livaditis