Quotes About Legacy

When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?

People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.

There can be no meaning in what will someday be lost. Passing glory is not true glory at all.

He wore Armani suits and drove a Jaguar, but finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning. The very fact that he existed in this world would eventually be forgotten. 'Such a shame, he was so young,' people might say. Or they might not.

Na minha opinião, a única coisa que podemos fazer pelos mortos é guardá-los na nossa memória.

As Pushkin put it: He had no itch to dig for glories deep in the dirt that time has laid.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. All quite simple, if you want to look at it that way. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. Hence I can live with it. But after I'm dead, can't I just lie in peace? Those Egyptian pharoahs had a point, wanting to shut themselves up inside pyramids.

Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.

People leave strange little memories behind when they die.

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

What's really important for people, what really has dignity, is how they die. Compared to that, he thought, how you lived doesn't amount to much. Still, how you live determines how you die.

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You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them." Sara looked directly into his eyes.

You slowly but surely become a has-been.

People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new.

But there's such a thing as a way of living that's guided by the way a person's going to die.

If you want one year of happiness, grow grain. If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees. If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people.

Strangely, there has never been a definitive source of information about Mooreland during a certain fifteen-year period, perhaps because there are so few people left who can reliably tell it.

Extinction has long since become a part of our lives.

To die with something to live for

I have a friend who says we spend the first half of our life building it and the second half preventing it from falling apart. I'd rather be under construction when I die.

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over. I hope Tom works on Camp Weasel forever.

It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair.