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Quotes About Death

Missing is a part of living and dying.
~ Jen Calonita
She'd died, been saved from the river Styx, and been offered the chance to become a god all in one day. It was a lot to swallow for any girl.
~ Jen Calonita
All of Mother Nature's creatures are designed to fully flourish before they drop dead.
~ Jen Sincero
For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as usual; it seems heartless and wrong, but now that the rituals of mourning have been attended to, the sole task left to Trudy is to try and comprehend the enormity of thes sudden change.
~ Jenna Blum
Een van de vreemde dingen aan de dood, heeft Trudy ontdekt, is namelijk dat je in het kielzog ervan gewoon verdergaat alsof er niets gebeurd is. Het lijkt harteloos en verkeerd, maar nu de rituelen van de rouw afgehandeld zijn, hoeft Trudy alleen nog maar de enorme omvang van deze plotselinge verandering proberen te bevatten.
~ Jenna Blum
Died from eating a Hershey bar.
~ Jenna Blum
her sisters die and then falling under the same shadow
~ Jennet Conant
I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
~ Jennifer Archer
Beth couldn't fight anymore. Her whole body wanted simply to stop. She'd die here in Thomas's little church, not ten yards from the churchyard where Thomas lay. She thought she heard the lectern door squeak, and she saw Thomas standing by it in the white cassock she'd darned so often. His dark hair was gray at the temples, his kind eyes so blue. "Be brave, my Beth," she thought he said." It's almost over.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Mrs. Leigh-Waters looked even more distressed. "Oh, Louisa, you mustn't..." "Speak ill of the dead?" Daniel asked, before Louisa could answer. "It's not the done thing, no, but death doesn't change what a person was in life.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Custo relinquished her carefully, but seemed relieved to let go of her, to let go of Death's child. "Okay," Adam said. He wasn't afraid of her. He'd been looking, praying, for Death for so long that he welcomed the chance to cradle her close—his means to Jacob's end, his tool of vengeance
~ Jennifer Ashley
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]
~ Jennifer Donnelly
For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Dead man, you are dead wrong. The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Your always look for the worst in people," said Love reproachfully. "And I always find it," Death said.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
if these mortals only knew, if they had the merest understanding of the grave, and of the eternity they will spend lying in it, they would eat chocolate for breakfast, caviar for lunch, and sing arias as they slopped the pigs.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sophie lowered her head into her hands, feeling as if she were made of the thinnest glass, so brittle and fragile that the softest tap could shatter her. She had escaped death only to come face-to-face with it once more.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
If the countess was Death, then Death was a cheat.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Only fools rush Death,' said Death
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Es una pena que no entienda que la música vive. Eternamente. Que es más poderosa que la muerte. Más poderosa que el tiempo. Y que su fuerza te sostiene cuando ya no hay nada que pueda sostenerte.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
It's your move," said Love. "I'm quite aware of that," said Death. "Ticktock," said Love. "Only fools rush Death," said Death.
~ Jennifer Donnelly