Death Quote by Michael Cunningham — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want.”

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.”

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”

“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”

“Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear life. Hedwig’s cage, the Firebolt, and his rucksack slipped from beneath his knees —”

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.”

“If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live...”