Death Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Time counts us out and flesh fades, but death cannot touch the inspiration we leave behind.”

— Zachary Koukol

“I used to imagine death would wipe my slate clean. But now I realize I want to live... If only to inscribe a new…

— Nicole Perlman

“You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you have life.”

— Marcus Sedgwick

“We never fully die even in what we think of as actual death. We change again and become echoes in others, and they carry…

— Eric Overby

“My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises”

— Munia Khan

“The idea that one will die is more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead, that, becoming…

— Marcel Proust

“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my…

— Rebecca Rosenblum

“I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…

— Joan Didion

“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence of an…

— Henry H. Roth

“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”

— Jasper Fforde