Death Quote by Victor Hugo

“He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— "Have a care of the manner…

— Victor Hugo

“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform…

— Victor Hugo

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

— Edward Young

“They buried him, but all through the night of mourning, in the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels…

— Marcel Proust

He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than…

— Nami Mun

“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math…

— Helen Simonson

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

“He looked down through the green transparency to the stony bottom webbed with golden lines. Never still. If his soul could cast a reflection…

— Saul Bellow

“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him…

— Barry Unsworth

“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted for viewing,…

— Don DeLillo

“Grief manifested itself in ways that felt like anything but grief; grief obliterated all feelings but grief; grief made a twin wear the same…

— Kamila Shamsie