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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151806 likes

#2

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74445 likes

#3

“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, hopelessness

451 likes

#4

“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

273 likes

#5

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

278 likes

#6

“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

216 likes

#7

“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: darkness

159 likes

#8

“You call it hope — that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

tags: hope, poetry

133 likes

#9

“When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: tarr-and-fether

98 likes

#10

“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Poems

tags: edgar-allan-poe, the-city-in-the-sea

107 likes

#11

“A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

101 likes

#12

“Blood was its Avatar and its seal.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

87 likes

#13

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

6049 likes

#14

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love

3968 likes

#15

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, sleep

2509 likes

#16

“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: cemetery, death, funeral-rites, holden

2014 likes

#17