Quotes About Legacy

Man has created death.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

I think you die the way you live.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

The rich that are rejoicing having conquered life, should beware & rethink, for no man can conquer death.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.