Death Quote by Jennifer Donnelly — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.”

“You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.”

“DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.”

“He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”

“I think your vision gets better as you get older.”

“Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

“Here at last”

“We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.”

“Men die. It's practically what they're for.”

“The first time is always the hardest”

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.”

“When a husband loses his wife, they call him a widower. When a wife loses her husband, they call her a widow. And when somebody’s parents die, they call them an orphan. But there is no name for a parent, a grieving mother, or a devastated father who have lost their child. Because the pain behind the loss is so immeasurable and unbearable, that it cannot be described in a single word. It just cannot be described.”