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Quotes About Legacy

it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.
~ John Updike
I am not afraid of death. When I have to confront the great reaper, I would like to recall Bernanos' words- 'And now, just the two of us!'.
~ Unknown
I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.
~ Unknown
Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.
~ J. Lincoln Fenn, Poe
Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.
~ Unknown
We are, as we die, who we most were in life...
~ Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.
~ Unknown
Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.
~ Unknown
Death is a shadow that always follows the body
~ English proverb
Death of destiny: dust
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.
~ Unknown
Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness.
~ Unknown
None of the dead come back. But some stay.
~ Unknown
Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
~ Unknown
I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.
~ Munia Khan
One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!
~ Neelam Saxena Chandra
Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.
~ Christopher Bollen, Orient
I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.
~ Unknown
If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
I do not fear death.I fear dying incomplete
~ Levon Peter Poe
They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.
~ Ransom Riggs, Hollow City