Death Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men…

— Davy Crockett

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether…

— Hannah Arendt

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without…

— Anne Bradstreet

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

— Friedrich Schiller

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes…

— Washington Irving

“I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the…

— Luis Buñuel

“The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten”

— George Orwell

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and…

— Richard de Bury