Quotes About Legacy

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

Death is the only real elegance.

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.