Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Home, Class

• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

• The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Believe, Mind

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Stone Gods”, p.81, Penguin UK

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