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“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/​daughter/​friend” instead;…

— Claire Messud

“No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!”

— Widad Akrawi

“The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so like death…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Does it feel that your life’s become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy. —“Take the Long Way Home,”…

— Diana Welch

“Banshee cries?” “You know, those creatures that cry really loud when someone from an important Irish family is about to die?”

— Patricia Morais

“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal.…

— Carrie Fisher

“My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking,…

— Stefan Zweig

“We were all quiet for a few moments before I broke the silence by saying, in my best upper-crust-girls'-school voice, "I am sure that…

— Lia Habel

“Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the…

— Michel Foucault

“Death has come to cut your throats and drink your blood!”

— Brom

When I am dying gather round a bum, a gamin, a virgin, someone bestial, a six-toed aristocrat by blood. A Toryette on her pony,…

— Anonymous

“Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival.”

— Bakhtin M.M