Sue Grafton Quotes

Death is an absolute marvel.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

All things are subject to decay and change.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Today will die tomorrow.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

All things must pass.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Time takes all and gives all.