Quotes About Legacy

Why do dying people never shed tears?

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Why should I be worried about death?

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.