Alice Sebold Quotes

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

The problem with death is absence

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

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

It is only the dead who do not return.

I am scared of death.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

It is only the dead who do not return.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Even death has a heart.

The world of the dead wonʹt give you up a second time.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

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

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Death is a fearful thing.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

We see death constantly on film.

Death's in the good-bye.

Not lost, but gone before.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.