Ecclesiastes 2:16

For he sees that even wise men die; The fool and the senseless alike perish And leave their wealth to others.

There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of the later things which will be, There will be for them no remembrance Among those who will come later still.

Then I said in my heart, “As is the fate of the fool, so will my fate be also. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said in my heart, “This too is vanity.”

Better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting Because that is the end of all mankind, And the living puts this in his heart.

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out from the holy place, and they are soon forgotten in the city where they did thus. This too is vanity.

For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he provided a way of escape for the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.