Quotes About Legacy

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

Not all of me shall die.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

For the living, death is thievery.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

I shall not altogether die.

Art is a protest against death.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.