Quotes About Legacy

accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after you were dead...

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten

Rudyard Kipling was the only popular writer of this century who was not at the same time a thoroughly bad writer.

Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.

La historia era un palimpsesto, borrado y reescrito tantas veces como fuese necesario.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent.

For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.

hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organisations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-don inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories.

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By the end he was living in each chapter of his life simultaneously—Kennedy and Obama, Vietnam and Bosnia and Afghanistan—as if he were floating in a single body of water whose temperature varied from place to place and depth to depth. All that accumulated experience—we Americans don't want it. We're almost embarrassed by it, except when we're burying it.

It can safely be said that no one has touched more lives, more deeply, than Death. Through this devastating memoir, it is hoped he will touch many, many more.

We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll

Men go and come, but earth abides.

Then, though his sight was now very dim, he looked again at the young men. They will commit me to the earth, he thought. Yet I also commit them to the earth. There is nothing else by which men live. Men go and come, but earth abides.

The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

Men go and come, but the earth abides

Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise'- old British man in Earth Abides