Quotes About Legacy

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.

Que pouvions-nous faire, donc? Vivre? C'est exactement dans ce genre de situation qu'écrasés par le sentiment de leur propre insignifiance les gens se décident à faire des enfants; ainsi se reproduit l'espèce, de moins en moins il est vrai.

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.

In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later.

A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.

Nous voulons retourner dans l'ancienne demeure Où nos pères ont vécu sous l'aile d'un archange, Nous voulons retrouver cette morale étrange Qui sanctifiait la vie jusqu'à la dernière heure.

No doubt the Romans had felt that theirs was an eternal civilization, right up to the moment their empire fell apart. Were they suicides, too?

Toynbee's idea that civilizations die not by murder but by suicide.

Una vida volcada hacia una meta deja poco sitio para el recuerdo

forse non avevo combinato granché di buono nella vita ma almeno avrei contribuito a distruggere il pianeta

If you control the children, you control the future.

Queremos regresar a la antigua morada donde el ala de un ángel cubría a nuestros padres, queremos recobrar esa moral que hasta el postrer instante santifica la vida

Las relaciones familiares duran algunos años, a veces algunos decenios, de hecho duran mucho más tiempo que las demás; y al final también mueren

Cuando la gente envejece, necesita pensar en cosas dulces y tranquilizadoras. Imaginar que algo hermoso nos espera en el cielo. En fin, que se entrenan un poquito para la muerte. Si no son ni demasiado imbéciles ni demasiado ricos.

Unlike most people I don't fear death, as I get older I rediscover my long-forgotten youth, and once in a while, when the going gets tough, I bury myself comfortably in my work. My books already guarantee me a form of immortality.

puede que no hubiera hecho gran cosa en mi vida, pero al menos habría contribuido a destruir el planeta–

The French Revolution, the republic, the motherland Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, all that paved the way for something, something that lasted a little more than a century. The Christian Middle Ages lasted a millennium and more.

Aceptar la ideología del cambio continuo es aceptar que la vida de un hombre se reduzca estrictamente a su existencia individual, y que las generaciones pasadas y futuras ya no tengan ninguna importancia para él. Así vivimos, y actualmente tener un hijo ya no tiene sentido para un hombre

like Baudelaire-Rimbaud-Mallarmé, then Breton). Their

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Our goal as parents should be to endeavor to pass down our faith to the next generation in such a way that they will be able to pass down their faith to the following generation in our absence.