Quotes About Legacy

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Death's but one more to-morrow.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

I want to go on living even after death!

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.