Edward St. Aubyn: Quotes about death

Edward St. Aubyn is British writer. Explore interesting quotes on death.
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“Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 3

Death

“The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the nightmare of endless experience.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 3

Death , People , Idea

“He had brought nothing to read except The Tibetan Book of the Dead, hoping to find its exotic iconography ridiculous enough to purge any fantasies he might still cling to about consciousness continuing after death.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 3

Death , Books , Hope , Reading

“In the eight years since his father’s death, Patrick’s youth had slipped away without being replaced by any signs of maturity, unless the tendency for sadness and exhaustion to eclipse hatred and insanity could be called ‘mature’.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 1

Death , Youth , Sadness