Quotes About Legacy

Quien muere vive para siempre [...]. Quien se aferra a esta vida, muere eternamente.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

The argument which is made by a man's life is of more weight than that which is furnished by words. —ISOCRATES

I wished I'd thought of that last before I'd departed. It might have been good advice to give out in my final days in Copper Downs, had I been able to fit such a conversation in between my busy schedule of murder, arson, and funerary rites.

Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." This

All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.

A king had to die so a republic could live.

It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car.

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.

even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

Moi, je ne meurs pas. Je continue. Je suis hier, aujourd'hui, demain.

M-am n?scut într-o lume cu privirile a?intite înapoi. Trecutul avea pentru ea mai mult? greutate decât prezentul.

Totul trece, totul moare. Nu exist? decât un lucru care scap? timpului ?i nu moare niciodat?: moartea. De unde se trag, îmi închipui, leg?turile dintre moarte ?i ve?nicie.

Mor?ii tr?iesc atâta vreme cât o singur? fiin?? vie îi mai poart? în minte. Noi îi purt?m în noi pe mor?ii no?tri.

N-am auzit niciodat? pe cineva vorbindu-ne despre trecut f?r? s? vorbeasc? ?i despre moarte. Iar viitorul de asemenea, nu ne vorbe?te decât de moarte. Nu ne r?mâne decât prezentul pentru a încerca, oarecum în zadar, s? ?inem moartea la respect. Via?a nu-i niciodat? nimic altceva decât o lung? retragere în fa?a mor?ii.