Quote by William C. Dietz

“Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.”

— Stephen King

“There is a constant amount of weight in the world. If one person loses weight, another must gain it. If somebody dies, an appropriate…

— Robin Helm

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

— J.R. Ward

“I would like to make a bold claim right here at the outset: the fact that we die is the most important fact about…

— Todd May

“I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!”

— Bram Stoker

“We observed a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. By that I mean that the thinnest fifth of men experienced the lowest mortality,…

— Joel Fuhrman

“what really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Death is more meaningful than just being dead.”

— Munia Khan

“He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.”

— Christine Fonseca

“Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?”

— Anthony Liccione

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

— Tarryn Fisher

As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming