Quintus Ennius Quotes

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

I shall not altogether die.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.