Mrs Death Misses Death Quotes

“Let's hope I come when you are busy doing something you want to live for. Let us hope I come when you are doing something you would die for, and let's hope that if you kill yourself, you are well over 40 years old, because to kill yourself before age 40 is like murdering a stranger,”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“Sex and food and drink and books. You really don’t need much else. Maybe a nice view of the sky. Some shoes that don’t hurt. A bed and roof that won’t leak. Some singing, some music and tempo. A heart full and a soul fed, a head full of dreams and possibilities, what more could you possibly want? What more is there?”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“Because once you have known Mrs Death there is no unknowing her. You have a mourning that sits inside you. It’s like having a stone in your centre; time smooths the edges like a pebble in a river, but it’s always there – a stone is a stone. If you’ve known loss, you’ll know this stone, you will carry a stone of your own – this pain and weight – and you’ll know what I mean. It is a tattoo under the inside of you that cannot fade or be removed. There is no unknowing the memory that a certain date and time triggers: the smell of the season, the time, the weather . . . We replay it, the jolt, the shock, the finality of death.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“Living is not as easy as they all make it seem. It is not as simple as breathe in and breathe out. It is not as simple as sleep, eat, work, repeat, sleep, eat, work, repeat. It is not as easy as they all make it look. You made it to today. You made it this far, well done you, and thank you. Thank you. Thank yourself. Thank you.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“That’s the stuff, darling, the love. Love, the love, the love. LOVE. That’s what living was always about.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“You live forever in your words, in hearts and memories, in your creations and connections. The seeds you sow, the child you raise, the song you sing, the story you write with your time here. You are eternal, you are forever present in your oily DNA and your unique thumb print.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“You know, since you are here and shit, you may as well give a shit”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“I dont know why
I put the china rabbit
In my suitcase and
Brought her to Ireland
I sit her on this table
Looking at me
As I write this
There are things
That we hold on
We hold on tightly
Time can pass
And years go by
And these things
And these objects
And these people
And these ideas
That we held so tightly
We have to let them go
We hold them in
Hold them down to be
Who we think they are
What we want them to be and what they mean to us and holding on to people
Like old ideas and bad habits
Or like china rabbits
Now we don't need to be
Doing that now
Do we.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“But every time I go to the cafe I remember that writing a book can hurt, it can hurt as much as climbing a mountain. Not writing a book hurts too. Not writing, well, that's like swallowing a mountain and having it jammed in your throat, unclimbed, unchallenged, unspoken, and unwritten.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“Death is a bitch, Life is a bitch, but it’s in poor taste to speak ill of the living.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“We are puppets, we are children, without thinking we so often mouth the words our lips are taught.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“The survival of the hero is up to you all now. It is important, now more than ever, to fight for all of this, to fight for your rights, for your freedoms, for your art, poetry and music. Because you all need to be heroes, to step up, to speak up, to support each other. It is all about kindness, and you need the doers and the creators. You must pay attention to the ones who listen and hear and do and can and will and share. And to the people of science and art, books and music, otherwise what is the actual point of all this? What was the point? Why are you all here if not for that? You are hear for love. To share the love.

When hate is rising, then love can only rise higher.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“So take today and blow its mind; take this today and suck it dry. Take today and fill it with the best of you. Take today and down it in one, take today like a shot of petrol and set your day alight.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“It is hard to keep up with her, to be honest. My sister. Life. She is an over-achiever, little Miss Abundance. My sister! Imagine growing up with that, with her for a sister! Just imagine if Life was your sister! Eggy little goody two-shows eggy fart face. The earth would be horribly over-crowded if U didn’t eat her eggs and destroy her spawn and do my job efficiently. She is constantly vomiting, and puking cherry pips and cherry blossoms everywhere. Every time Life lays an egg, Death eats an egg. All who come from eggs are connected, every creature, every egg, every mammal and fish and insect. Eggs. Salt. Birth. Blood. Death. And on and on it goes, never ending . . . eggy eggs eggy eggs . . . What came first, the chicken or the egg? Life came first! She always comes first! Ha! Selfish fish fishy eggy fart face.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

“Here I was born and I did grow teeth.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death: Salena Godden

“And you, you’re only human. Mankind. Woman kind. You only have one job: be kind.”
― Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death