Death Quote by Madeline Miller — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you have to go, you know I will go with you." We slept.”

“That is — your friend?”

“The room turned gray, then white. The bed felt cold without him, and too large. I heard no sounds, and the stillness frightened me. It is like a tomb. I rose and rubbed my limbs, slapped them awake, trying to ward off a rising hysteria. This is what it will be, every day, without him.”

“Circe, he says, it will be all right.”

“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”

“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“Now hollow fires burn out to black,”

“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”

“There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.”