“Thou art but gone before, whither the world must follow.”

— Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Sir John Roe

About Ben Jonson

1572 – 1637

English playwright and poet, author of "Volpone".

“Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.”

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

“Calumnies are answered best with silence.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

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

“We have to accept death; it makes life possible.”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Sometimes the hardest thing is to let go.”