Body Quote by Pearl S. Buck

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be…

— Mitch Albom

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came…

— Garth Stein

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This…

— J.R. Miller

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion…

— Philip K. Dick

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

— Anne Tyler

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

— Clarence Jordan

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him…

— Barry Unsworth

“It is a sad fact that all flesh must die, but there is no reason why one's story, as well as one's soul, should…

— Andrei Codrescu

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

— Sebastian Faulks

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it…

— Thomas Hughes