Quotes About Legacy

Some of the names I could not reason, like the box marked DARKNESS, or the one with DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN written in pencil on its front. I noticed that there was a box on the top of one of these skyscrapers of boxes that was marked DUST

Allora il mio papà merita di stare nell'archivio' 'Cosa ti fa pensare che sia un bene starci?' 'Pechè vuol dire che uno è biograficamente significativo' 'E perché, questo è un bene?' 'Io voglio essere significativo.' 'Nove persone significative su dieci hanno a che fare coi soldi o con la guerra

I kept thinking about how they were all the names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing that dead people keep.

Who's Norma Jean Mortenson?" "Marilyn Monroe!" "Who's Marilyn Monroe?" "Sex!

When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweller to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice.

The soul was not ready to transcend, but was sent back, given a chance to right a previous generation's wrong.

The ground is still filled iwth rings, and money, and pictures, and Jewish things. I was only able to find a few of them, but they fill the earth. The hero did not ask me once what she was saying. I am not certain if he knew what she was saying, or if he knew not to inquire.

Dünya hep ayn? kal?rken ölen insan say?s?n?n artmas? ve günün birinde kimseyi gömecek yer kalmayacak olmas? tuhaf deÄŸil mi?

Children bury their dead parents, because the dead need to be buried. Parents do not need to bring their children into the world, but children need to bring their parents out of it.

In the modern world, the meaning of the dead to the defeated is a bitter, unhealed wound, where defeat rarely means obliteration of the people and the civilization. As we recently witnessed in the Persian Gulf War, defeat may not even bring the fall of the opposing government. At the level of grand strategy in Vietnam, the United States had been defeated, and yet American soldiers had won every battle. For the veterans, the unanchored dead continue to hover.

Caesar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it and return no more.

The scariest thing about life that I have yet to face is to know whether or not I lived, for I won't know the answer until I'm dead ~By Jordan

No sabemos lo larga que es nuestra historia pero sentimos su peso.

The Suicide Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo. A lo largo de los años puebla un espacio con imágenes de provincias, de reinos, de montañas, de bahías, de naves, de islas, de peces, de habitaciones, de instrumentos, de astros, de caballos y de personas. Poco antes de morir, descubre que ese paciente laberinto de líneas traza la imagen de su cara.

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.

The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.

Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.

The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.