Death Quote by Edmund Spenser

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

“All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the…

— Bertrand Russell

“Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters…

— Robinson Jeffers

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

— Seneca the Younger

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin the vast…

— Betrand Russell