It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the — Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the — Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the — Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the — Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the — Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
Download Customize

It comes down to this. When we die, not only will our bodies be gone, but so will the people we remember. We live in the world, and we recall the world, and one day we won't do either anymore. The church bells will ring and the drunks will drink.

— Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
death and dying

More “Death and dying” Quotes

Death is a misery. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too p — Jessica Sorensen, Nova and Quinton: No Regrets
We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors. — Eion Colfer
Everything I see reminds me that in a few days I shall no longer see it... It's horrible... I shall see nothing more... — Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines. — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. — John Hodge, Collaborators
Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is tormenting you. What are yo — C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
How people die remains in the memory of those who live on. — Cicely Saunders
If death is necessity life is a choice — Yasser Hakeem
And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome — William Shakespeare