Death Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.”

“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.”

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

“Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead”

“Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.”

“He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds, but then so had Achilles and Caesar.”

“Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.”

“He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'”

“I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.”