13,737 Quotes About Death

  • Author Kris Radish
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    Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him.""What happened?" Jill asked."My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'.

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  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert
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    This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people - oh, heavens no. It is merely that - as the years pass - there comes to be a shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history. Those people start to be plucked away by death, and they are awfully hard to replace after they go.

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  • Author Nickole Brown
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    I want you to grab a rag,a sponge, the corner of your shirt―anything you can find—to sopup the liquid—so much of ityou can’t tell what’s what—be itmucus or bile or vomit or blood―as if every water has been brought upfor this giving-in, as if his bodyis already a river and rushing away.

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