Quotes about Death

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.

Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody thought he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

Thank God for life, True Belle said, and thank life for death.

You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.

Don't mistake the fathers' thanks, Fairy had warned her. Men scared of us, always will be. To them we're death's handmaiden standing as between them and the children their wives carry. During those times, Fairy said, the midwife is the interference, the one giving orders, on whose secret skill so much depended, and the dependency irritated them. Especially here in this place where they had come to multiply in peace.

The price of wealth, historically, has been blood, annihilation, death, and despair.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.

How'd you get rid of her?' 'Killed her. Then I killed the me that killed her.' 'Who's left?' 'Me.

You can't take a life and walk off and leave it. Life is life. Precious. And the dead you kill is yours. They stay with you anyway, in your mind. So it's a better thing, a more better thing to have the bones right there with you wherever you go. That way, it frees up your mind.