Quotes
on Death - There is Love in Holding
“There
is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
―
Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
“No
one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“Though
lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
―
Dylan Thomas
“He
is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
―
Franz Kafka
“I'm
gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like
filtered through the pillow.
Stake
him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"
And
what?" (Michael)
When
did you get home?" Claire demanded.
Apparently
just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass.
It's...different.”
―
Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools
“Because
God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of
loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and
we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest.
The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power
to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
―
Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
“But
death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these
long, long years.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
“The
death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the
world.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“The
heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for
humour, too.”
―
Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
“For
what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And
when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
―
Kahlil Gibran
“It
is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny
felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to
you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot
possibly imagine it.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
“Killing
is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“We
die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,
bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we
have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
I
wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such
cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like
the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories,
communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
―
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“That
is not dead which can eternal lie,
And
with strange aeons even death may die.”
―
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City
“Do
you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
―
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
“You
do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does
not resurrect.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Nobody
owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
―
William S. Burroughs
“Yea,
all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H.
Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
“I
wish...I wish I were dead...”
“And
what use would that be to anyone?”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The
idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find
myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in
to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
