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Quotes About Legacy

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.
~ Anonymous
when you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
~ Indian proverb
We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always....
~ Unknown
Everything that is born will eventually die and everything that is created will eventually be destroyed.
~ Unknown
There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.
~ Unknown
Our heads will happen cold when this is found.
~ Tony Harrison
Don't be sad because i'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another great person who gets the chance to do better things than i did.
~ Emma Claeys
People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.
~ Unknown
It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now, So you know that you ain't got forever just right now, Good to remember death man.
~ Unknown
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit
~ Unknown
RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...
~ Unknown
we're just paper on a shelf, in the end
~ Unknown
The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.
~ Anonymous
You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.
~ Unknown
To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.
~ Euripides
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
~ Jewish Saying
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
~ Samuel Butler
At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.
~ Unknown
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
~ Anonymous
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
~ George Santayana
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
~ Garrison Keillor
For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.
~ Anonymous