Edna O'Brien Quotes

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Every loss of life is terrible.

I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

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

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.