Deaths
- 1 February - Elizabeth Jolley, author (born 1923)
- 22 February - Joyce Lee, poet (born 1913)
- 2 March - David A. Myers, poet and publisher (born 1942)
- 23 May - John Croyston, poet (born 1933)
- 11 July - Glenda Adams, author (born 1939)
- 11 July - Noel Rowe, poet (born 1951)
- 1 August - Mona Brand, playwright (born 1915)
- 24 August - Philip Grundy, translator (born 1932)
- 16 October - Steven J. Spears, author and playwright (born 1951)
- 31 October - Eric Rolls, author (born 1923)
- 24 December - Jan McKemmish, author (born 1950)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)