Age Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of…

— Will Durant

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who…

— Ralph Chaplin

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

— Wendell Berry

“The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not…

— Henry Miller

Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour…

— Anonymous