Quotes About Legacy

The right way to live is something we can only teach the dead.

Todo es absurdo. Éste empeña su vida en ganar un dinero que guarda, y no tiene hijos a quien dejárselo ni esperanza de que el cielo le reserve alguna transcendencia por ese dinero. Aquél empeña su esfuerzo en adquirir una fama para después de muerto, y no cree en la supervivencia que le permita conocer su fama.

Nosotros heredamos la destrucción y sus resultados.

Death is Life's triumph!

Whoever lives like me doesn't die: he terminates, wilts, devegetates. The place where he was remains without him being there; the street where he walked remains without him being seen on it; the house where he lived is inhabited by not-him. That's all, and we call it nothing;

I shall die as I have lived, surrounded by bric-a-brac, sold by weight among the postscripts added to lost things.

the royal crown and robe are never as grand as when the departing king leaves them on the ground ...

Quem sabe se eu estarei morto depois de amanhã? Se eu estiver morto depois de amanhã, a trovoada de depois de amanhã Será outra trovoada do que seria se eu não tivesse morrido. Bem sei que a trovoada não cai da minha vista, Mas se eu não estiver no mundo. O mundo será diferente. Haverá eu a menos. E a trovoada cairá num mundo diferente e não será a mesma trovoada

Civilizations appear only to exist in order to produce art and literature, for what speaks of them, what remains of them, are words.

The things we achieve, whether empires or sentences, have (because they've been achieved) that fatal defect of real things: the fact they're perishable.

La muerte es un recodo del camino, morir es sólo no ser ya visto.

I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I do actually write it; I can take pride – like a father in his son – in the fame I will have, since at least I have something that could bring me fame.

They all have, like me, their future in the past.

Only unhappiness raises us up — and the tedium we draw from that unhappiness is as heraldic as being the descendant of distant heroes.

Totul este orgoliu ?i incon?tien??. Totul e dorin?? de agita?ie,de a face lucruri,de a l?sa o urm?.

The everyday external things of the one who died

El sentido de todo, el lugar donde él estará para siempre.

La historia me absolverá!

inspired my own life. Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan. --Fidel Castro

Are your friends as good as MY friends? I can discern the nod of of assent but doubt it. My own friends are far better, they are famous people and they are all dead. Who, you may ask, are those friends of mine, and why are they dead? It is a fair question. They are dead because, had they lived, they would have died anyway from extreme old age and decrepitude.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

That's not the way he told it, Tarwater said. He said that when the schoolteacher was seven years old, he had good sense but later it dried up. His daddy was an ass and not fit to raise him and his mother was a whore. She ran away from here when she was eighteen years old. It took her that long? the stranger said in an incredulous tone. My, she was kind of a ass herself.

She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.