Elizabeth I Quotes

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

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

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

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 the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.