Death Of Family Quotes

Death by family silver, I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind. — Alan Bradley

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but ...
Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129) — Christopher Hitchens

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. — Patrick Marber

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. — Robert Breault

Hot afternoon
the squeak of my hands
on my daughter's coffin — Lenard D. Moore

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death. — Mike Heil

A will can save one's family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely). — Henrietta Newton Martin

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. — John Osborne

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. — John Hanning Speke

Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits. — James Fenimore Cooper

The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society. — Atul Gawande

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life. — J.D. Salinger

Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it? — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement. — E.J. Koh

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. — Misty Upham

Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone! — Nikita Dudani

He nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids; — Robin Becker

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family. — George Washington

One family
we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death. — Charles Wesley

Danny couldn't remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway. — Mike Mehalek

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us. — Aravind Adiga

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. — Bryant McGill

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth. — Elisabeth Egan

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. — Jodi Picoult

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. — Keith Henson

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships. — Kenneth Eade

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. — James Agee

It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person. — Danielle Steel

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. — Erma Bombeck

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss. — Brian Spellman

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be. — Betty Smith

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family. — George Carlin

That's the hope, isn't it? To see your family in your time of dying. — Saim .A. Cheeda

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. — Henry Thomas

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi? — Lionel Shriver

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal. — Samuel Scoville Jr.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. — Sam Sheppard

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. — Viraj J. Mahajan

What could go wrong ... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition. — Orson Scott Card

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life. — Viraj J. Mahajan

But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly. — Ruta Sepetys

All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family's turn. — Ralph Webster

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too. — Gayle Forman