Death Quote by Salman Rushdie

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.”

— Kevin Powers

“I had hoped to make her strong and healthy, and now she may be too weak herself after this slow death, like my father's…

— Sylvia Plath

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

“When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.”

— Glenn Meade

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and…

— Anne Ursu

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated,…

— Shirley Hazzard

“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be…

— Flannery O'Connor

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose,…

— Kelseyleigh Reber