Maj Sjowall Quotes

Blood and death. That moves me.

I envy the dead.

Even one death is horrible.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

Death is an art, you know.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

A piece of each of us died.

I must write you a line of deepest sympathy. I know how you must be suffering about Constance. We cannot disguise from ourselves that our old Constance has gone forever. I feel, whatever it may be in the future, for the moment she has passed out of the lives of her family. She has become an impersonal being, and no one will feel this so much as you.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.