Death Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.”

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

“Agatha looked into the wolf's eyes. "I don't want to die,”

“As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”

“One night he sits up. In cots around him are a few dozen sick or wounded. A warm September wind pours across the countryside and sets the walls of the tent rippling.”

“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

“Once to swim I sought the sea-side,”