In Other Words: Death

In Other Words, one of our favorite memes here at Reading Lark, has moved to Fridays. Each Friday we bring you a collection of literary quotes selected by our awesome blog team centered around a different theme or topic. Enjoy - and feel free to share YOUR favorite quote about this week's theme in our comments section!  

Tevya had work stuff going on so she asked me to take care of IOW this week. I picked the topic based on Halloween and The Day of the Dead celebrations from this week. This week's topic is...

Death

Andrea:

‎"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." 
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1))
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love." 
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." 
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

Paula:

All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity. ~ Hamlet

To die will be an awfully big adventure. ~J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Michelle:

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last.

- Edgar Allan Poe

You see sir; death is an intellectual matter, but dying is pure pain.
- John Steinbeck

‎"Death is peaceful... easy. Life is harder."
— Bella Swan