Quotes About Legacy

Alas for the seed of man.

who will he be, my dear ones? Risking all to shoulder the curse that weighs down my parents, yes and you too—that wounds us all together

None of your power follows you through life.

Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.

All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light!

O the generations of men92 the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing

How, how could the furrows your father plowed bear you, your agony, harrowing on in silence O so long?

Mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace. - Sophocles

O the generations of men the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing

Now he'll tear himself from his native earth, not linger, curse the house with his own curse.

But surely they will shroud my corpse with Theban dust?

The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

I, with my eyes, how could I look my father in the eyes when I go down to death?

you and your loved ones live together in infamy, you cannot see how far you've gone in guilt.

IOKASTE. So ging das Gerücht und ist noch nicht verstummt.

We have only a little time to please the living, But all eternity to love the dead.

S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ?u u grob le?, U?iniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje svi?at se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ?u po?ivat. Svi?a l' se Onako tebi, zakon božji pogazi!

All lives end, but not all conclude.

It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

Let all live as they would die.