Alas Quote by W. H. Auden

Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in…

— Elie Wiesel

O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead…

— Anonymous

The sun goes down. The stars come out and all that counts, is here and now.

— The Wanted

“The earth will spin, the stars will rearrange themselves around one another and the world will crawl with the dead who one day will…

— Carrie Ryan

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

— Anonymous

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

— Marian Keyes

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,…

— Joseph Addison

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

— James Montgomery

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

— Kevin J. Anderson