Quotes About Legacy

With Edward's death imminent, questions of whether a woman could succeed were irrelevant. The only question was, which woman?

the only thing that's permanent is destruction we're all going to disappear trying to leave a mark more permanent that myself.

Don't even think about it. Who would have children. You have kids, they grow up, they hate you and you die.

In a hundred and fifty years no one alive will ever have known me. Being forgotten like that, entering that great and ongoing blank, seems more like death than death. ?

Being forgotten like that, entering that great and ongoing blank, seems more like death than death.

On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here.

The quality that all last words share: the silence after.

Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a woman had been working on for thirty years: sixteen pages.

For just a moment, with great effort, I could imagine my will as a force that would not disappear but redistribute when I died, and that all life contained the same force, and that I needn't worry about my impending death because the great responsibility of my life was to contain the force for a while and then relinquish it.

After a friend dies young, the story of her life becomes the exposition to a tragedy. This is the central problem of biography.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Everything I am is because of my mom.

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

The museum may lose things," I said, "but it never throws them away.

It had also affected the old fishermen's hard complexions, until one fancied that when Death claimed them it could only be with the aid, not of any slender modern dart, but the good serviceable harpoon of a seventeenth century woodcut.

Man has done his best to ruin the world he lives in.

We are ghosts of the people we used to be. -Dickensian, TV Series (2015– ), s01e17

Winston Churchill's own daughter Mary served on a gun site in Hyde Park, about which the prime minister remarked, "A gunner is a gunner.

The past is never dead. It is not even past." —WILLIAM FAULKNER

David is very concerned about being remembered. I'm concerned about remembering because, after all, I'm going to be left behind. People we know die all the time and there is really no way to react. What can you do? Freak out every day? David brings memory up all the time. I can see how appalled he is at how little any of us react to AIDS deaths. He's focused a lot of worry on being forgotten.

But that's what I mean: you're Ms. Hempel forever. At least to us.

It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.