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Quotes About Legacy

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
~ William Butler Yeats
I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'
~ Zach Galifianakis
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
~ Edward Young
Kira: "Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or...No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it was...maybe he wanted to live on forever in Rei.
~ Fuyumi Soryo
Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.
~ Gary Lineker
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
~ Georg Buchner
I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.
~ George Galloway
As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.
~ George Saunders
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
~ George Washington
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
~ Grace Slick
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
~ Greta Garbo
Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.
~ Hamish Bowles
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
~ Harold Brodkey
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
~ Theognis of Megara
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
~ Theresa Villiers
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.
~ Tiger Woods
Death strips all men of dignity.
~ Tobsha Learner
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.
~ Tom Clancy
Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.
~ Tori Amos
I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!
~ Usher
Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
~ Veronica Roth