Death Quote by Tanith Lee

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as…

— Phillip Pullman

“The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

“Everyone, he thought, must have adored her; all men assuredly must have coveted her. She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this;…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I am going to describe her life from the inside outward, from its core, the house as well, rooms in which life was gathered,…

— James Salter

“She had a way of tidying up after people, interpreting and representing them when they were dead or absent, in the kindest light”

— A.L. Barker

“Life, she remembered, had to be lived, even - and maybe particularly - in the middle of death”

— j.d. robb

“She thought of death and of her own in particular: the death of her body and the death of her face.”

— William Trevor

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Her greatest legacy could not be measured in garments or in words, but in the wisdom she had imparted, in the lives made better…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her…

— Virginia Woolf

“She died a few days later, and her death buried once and for all the intrigues between the Precious Wife, the Gracious Wife, and…

— Shan Sa