Death of a loved one Quote by Wendell Berry

“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

“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation…

— Benjamin Percy

“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

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind

“Then he turned the pebbles over in his hardened fingers, remembering the only words in the way of wisdom his father had ever given…

— Robert Gatewood

“The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father’s face, which received those words as a…

— John Williams

“and when I took my fingers down, there was the stain of the tears, tinged with mortal blood. And already there was begun in…

— Anne Rice

“His own men, those who would attack in the morning, knelt on the earth, faces hidden behind one hand, in an agonizing tunnel of…

— Sebastian Faulks

“There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau