Death Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“I covered up my mistakes—with dirt, like you’d do with any other dead bodies.”

— Jarod Kintz

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“I am his tomb. The earth is nothing. Dead. Staves and orchards issue from my mouth. His. Perfume my chest, which is wide, wide…

— Jean Genet

“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I…

— John William Polidori

“Often I Wish I Were a potato. Eyes opened in all directions. Unafraid of the cold earth. The difference between life and death for…

— Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

“Let us choose the rudest, roughest, most uncultivable spot, for Death's garden ground; and Death shall teach us to beautify it, grave by grave.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish…

— Humphrey Cobb

“The poor die on flea-infested straw, and the rich on down pillows, Simon thought. But no matter where they are, people die. Death makes…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood…

— Alice Hoffman

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His…

— Steve Aylett