Behinds Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but…

— Alexander MacLaren

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

— Martine Leavitt

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

— George Herbert

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

— Leonid Andreyev

Old men go to death; but death comes to young men.

— Proverb

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

— Anne Bradstreet

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive…

— Samuel Smiles

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

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

— William Butler Yeats

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

— Richard Paul Evans