Benedict Quote by William Shakespeare

“It is a sad fact that all flesh must die, but there is no reason why one's story, as well as one's soul, should…

— Andrei Codrescu

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This…

— J.R. Miller

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.”

— Munia Khan

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

— Seneca the Younger

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

“He was then sixty-two years old, an age by which most men are in the grave or at least occupying a chair in Death's…

— Sara Poole

“The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the…

— Madeline Miller

“This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.”

— Mike Mignola

“Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh /She/, I…

— H. Rider Haggard