Death Of A Child Quotes

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

The dead only knows their world.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens