"What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?"

Mortality, Time, Reflection, Observation

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"What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?"

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"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?"

Roman Payne, American Novelist

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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Mortality, Hope, Death, Faith, Grave

"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Anton Chekhov

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

Light

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

Morality

"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."

Life

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

Time

"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."

Happiness

"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

Woman

"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."

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"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."

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"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Difference

"He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people."

Self