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Quotes About Legacy

And make death proud to take us.
~ Cleopatra
There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.
~ Ann Coulter
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
~ Dennis Hopper
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
~ Jack Kevorkian
Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
~ William Wallace
I want to be a pretty corpse.
~ Eva Braun
One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy
~ Eiichir? Oda
Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
~ William Holden
I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.
~ Gary Numan
I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.
~ Eminem
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
~ H.L. Mencken
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
I shall hear in heaven.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
~ Henri Nouwen
It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]
~ Vespasian
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
~ Alexander Crummell
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
~ B. F. Skinner
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
~ Bertrand Russell
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
~ Steve King
Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
~ Antonio Machado
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?
~ Martin Buber
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
~ Ernest Hemingway