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“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.”

People Thinking World Long Life Is Song Forever Rounds Determine Graves Mortals Endeavor Thrones Sermons Crave Wreaths

Book:The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Source: The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.”

Source: The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.”

May Long Different Lying Support Path Wise Wife Changed Becoming Aspect Graves Idleness Meadows Bachelors

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

Wells Long Doe Soul Sea Please Quiet Graves Ease Port Paine

Book:Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen

Source: Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen