Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Julius Caesar

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Anna Akhmatova

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Deepak Chopra

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Gloria Steinem

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Heinrich Heine

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Ian Fleming

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Jon Krakauer

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Jean Paul

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Louise Erdrich

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Michael Shermer

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sophocles

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Thomas Browne

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Terry Pratchett

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Woody Allen