Death Quote by James Fenimore Cooper — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”

“If you truly live, you will never truly die!”

“Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.”

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”

“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”

“Though she would have preferred long ago to have died, fled, gotten it all over with, the body--Jesus, how the body!--took its time. It possessed its own wishes and nostalgias. You could not just turn neatly into light and slip out the window. You couldn't go like that. Within one's own departing but stubborn flesh, there was only the long, sentimental, piecemeal farewell.”