Quotes About Legacy

We all die uneducated. But at least we will not feel quite so lost, so bewildered. We will have disenthralled ourselves from the merely contemporary. We will understand something—not much, but something—of our position in space and time.

We are all citizens of history.

The echo of enslavement is everywhere. It is in the levees, originally built by enslaved labour. It is in the detailed architecture of some of the city's oldest buildings, sculpted by enslaved hands. It is in the roads, first paved by enslaved people.

The flower imperishable of this valiant age, - A true American!

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

Books are the anchors Left by the ships that rot away.

To die guessing that you will be forgotten is one thing. But what would it be like to know that you have been forgotten before you die?

But for that to be remembered, Bruno Schulz has to be remembered,

and the main reason he was so easily forgotten is that a Gestapo officer blew his brains out.

Yonder lies the castle of my father. —TONY CURTIS (ATTRIB.),

Yonder lies duh castle of my fuddah.

The more nobly behaved the family, the less chance it stood.

It isn't the man who wants to who continues the tradition, it's the man who can, and sometimes he's the man who knows least about it.

It was being published, even after his death, that brought Franz Kafka alive: otherwise he would have been just a man who got nowhere with women.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

My wife, Jane, made it all possible. My daughter, Claire, made it

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

Brain is a temporary phenomenon in Nature. Performance is eternal.

It has become clear to me during my workshops that a lot of the pain people carry is not their own and may go back several generations. Most frequently it is their parents' pain they have taken on, but it might also be their grandparents' or siblings'.

As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.

He who knew how to live should know how to die.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The living, though they yearn for consummation of their fate, need rest, and in their turn leave children to fulfil their doom.

When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.