Agatha Christie Quotes, Death Quotes, Waiting 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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Death Quotes , Lying Quotes

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Death Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Death Quotes

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Death Quotes , Home Quotes

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

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Tags : Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes , Death Quotes , Resolution Quotes

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Death Quotes , Sex Quotes

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Girl Quotes , Death Quotes

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Death Quotes , Writing Quotes

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Death Quotes

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Death Quotes , Brother Quotes

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Death Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes