Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Benjamin Disraeli

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Bryant H. McGill

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charlie Chaplin

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

Colm Toibin

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Derek Walcott

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Billy Corgan

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Chuck Palahniuk

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

D. H. Lawrence

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Elias Canetti

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert