Quotes About Legacy

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

I like people who can't die in their bed.

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Authority forgets a dying king.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.