John Milton Quotes

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

I want to go on living after my death!

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.