“It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.”
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Anton Chekhov222
Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
“Man’s life is but a jest,
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.”
George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) British writer
The Jester’s Sermon. Compare: "Life is a jest and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it", John Gay, My own Epitaph; "Life is an empty dream", Robert Browning, Paracelsus, ii.; "Life ’s but a series of trifles at best", Anonymous.
“1800. Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity. Remember thy own.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.”
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Variant translation: A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
