Death Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.”

“That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.”

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.”

“When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.”

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”

“(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

“Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.”

“There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.”

“What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.”