Death Quote by Philip Roth

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

— Shawn Davis

“I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want…

— Émile Zola

“Trying to survive in the company of a man who didn’t care if he died as long as it happened quickly was more than…

— K.R. Griffiths

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live.…

— Robin Hobb

“I wondered if my head and heart would ever reconcile, or whether I'd just cursed myself to relive this moment for the rest of…

— Margaret Rogerson

“I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.”

— Knut Hamsun

“...for he had learned from others of their kind that death seemed to bring small comfort from the worrisome sphere of life…”

— Neal Barrett Jr

“I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.”

— Brenda Perlin

“What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“So weak, so little left, time running out. I will be robbed of my old age. I try not to feel bitter about it,…

— Paul Auster

“Sometimes I actually hope that he did once feel empty and hopeless and helpless enough to slash his wrists to the bone, because if…

— Matthew Quick

“His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides