Death Quote by John Irving — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases”

“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)”

“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”

“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.”

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”

“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”

“Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?”

“There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.”

“It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.”