Quotes About Legacy

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.

Life is short, the art long.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!