Anton Chekhov Quotes, Death Quotes, Depressing Quotes

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Death Quotes

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;-- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Love Quotes , Death Quotes

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Death Quotes , Land Quotes

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Smart Quotes

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Death Quotes

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Death Quotes , Waiting Quotes

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Death Quotes , Lonely Quotes

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Death Quotes

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Death Quotes , Lying Quotes

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Death Quotes , Procrastination Quotes

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Success Quotes , Death Quotes

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Death Quotes , Summer Quotes

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

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Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Death Quotes , Illusion Quotes