Contemplation Quote by Rupert Thomson

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth…

— Tom Clancy

“It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.”

— William Ritter

“One of the towers has fallen. When it's our turn to leave, it's like something in me is finally willing to listen, and suddenly…

— David Levithan

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure…

— Vaddey Ratner

“The dead are everywhere. Most are buried and forgotten. A very small number walk among you.”

— J.R. Rain

“The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Yes, it would have been good, he thought, to spend quiet years with his family, waiting for his diseased heart to fail as he…

— David Gemmell

“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb.  Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.”

— A. Lee Martinez

“This was the threshold to the place of the dead.”

— Terry Goodkind

“Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the temple? No,…

— Ha Jin