Quotes About Legacy

Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren't — open your ears at your funeral.

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

Are you brave enough to live your DASH: birth year – death year?

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that entombs us, closes our eyes, and blossoms in a beautiful eterneity.

How many have died that I might live?And who has died that I might live?

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us.

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

In life, nobody gets out alive.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

None of us are getting out of here alive".

I've been ready to die since before you was Born!

You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?