“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
More from Edgar Allan Poe on Death
“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
Others on Death
Markus Zusak
10 quotes“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more deat...”
Anne Rice
7 quotes“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely...”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... ther...”
Khalil Gibran
6 quotes“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”
Neil Gaiman
5 quotes“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”
Gabriel García Márquez
5 quotes“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
John Donne
5 quotes“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
Mitch Albom
4 quotes“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”
George R.R. Martin
4 quotes“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we kno...”
Jasper Fforde
4 quotes“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”
Agatha Christie
4 quotes“Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”