Death Quote by Alice Sebold — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

“After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.”

“He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day shaped around what they were so preoccupied by: my absence. Today he would not have to pretend he was getting back to normal—whatever normal was.”

“I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.”

“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out.Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room.”

“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?”

“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it is more blessed to kill than to be killed.”

“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.”

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“What does he say?' he asked.”

“Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together.”