“While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh — but smile no more.”

— Edgar Allan Poe , The Haunted Palace

"The Haunted Palace" (1839), st. 5.

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Edgar Allan Poe 126

American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

Ethel Lynn Beers (1827–1879) American writer

"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" (first published in Harper's Weekly on November 30, 1861 under the title The Picket Guard).

“The chief indignant grins a ghastly smile.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XX. 301–302 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through the meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before”

Johnny Mercer (1909–1976) American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional

Song The Days of Wine and Roses

“You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: Duchess By Night

“Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us… Nothing just stops and stays… But it flows on… Like a river…”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“I don't smile much, and I never laugh. It's just something that's in me. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.”

Charlie Sifford (1922–2015) professional golfer

Sifford during an interview with Golf Digest, see My Shot: Dr. Charlie Sifford https://www.golfdigest.com/story/myshot_gd0612
Also see Obama calls black golf trailblazer Sifford a 'legend https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-golf-sifford/obama-calls-black-golf-trailblazer-sifford-a-legend-idUKKBN0L82J720150204 by Reuters