Quotes About Legacy

L'homme c'est rien, l'oeuvre c'est tout»

Died August 4th, 1860.

Se muoio domani, cosa abbastanza probabile, morirò sapendo che la mia missione in questo mondo è stata assolta, e bene. Sono morti per mano mia. Non ho altre speranze o desideri.

El hombre no es nada, la obra lo es todo.

It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In

may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.' 'No? You surprise me. Look at it in this way, then. Captain Morstan disappears. The only person in London whom he could have visited is Major Sholto. Major Sholto denies having heard that he was in London. Four years later Sholto dies. Within a week of his death Captain Morstan's daughter receives a valuable present, which is repeated from year to year and now culminates in a letter which

Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary birds to give birth to a swan. The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way into the world.

Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

razgovaram s jednim starijim muškarcem koji mi objašnjava kako njegova žena, nije doista mrtva, jer zadovoljstva iz vremena koje su proveli zajedno i dalje žive u njemu.

Kakve god bile naše muke i naše pobede, kako god ih mi propratili, sve one vrlo brzo izblede, kao mastilo na papiru.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me

We must always keep something to remember those who have left us.

În zilele noastre, oamenii par s? cread? c? vieÈ›ile lor sunt pe de-a-ntregul construite prin opÈ›iune; dar pe vremea aceea ne consideram buc??i de lut care p?strau pe vecie amprentele celor care le atinseser?.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

This was written before the full extent of the holocaust was known, but that does not alter the fact that the large majority of surviving Jews in the world is of Eastern European –

Porque la audacia es una virtud, y las lágrimas de la posteridad serán perlas, pero los negocios son los negocios.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life