Lauren DeStefano Quotes

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

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.

Tombstones don't talk back.

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.

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

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.