Being Dead Quotes

“There is no remedy for death—or birth—except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“A hundred years ago no one was silent or tongue-tied, as we are now, when death was in the room. They had not yet muzzled grief or banished it from daily life. Death was cultivated, watered like a plant. There was no need for whispering or mime.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“Yet there still was love, the placid love that only time can cultivate, a love preserved by habit and by memory. Their tree had little rising sap, perhaps, but it was held firm by deep and ancient roots.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“Passion is the work of seconds. You only have to make a god of what you most desire.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead