Edmund Spenser Quotes

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

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?

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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

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.

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.