Quotes About Legacy

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.Grandfather: What is it,

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist

Death is the final destiny of the human race.

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it!

The death of a dreamer does not always bring about the death of his dreams.

Death is not the end! The exit for the world of mortals is the entrance to the world of immortals!

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.