Quotes about Legacy

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.

Napoleon is said to have had hopes of August 15th. There is an irresistible attraction in the idea of linking one's name with a regularly recurring date.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

You are the sum total of all that we have been," said the youngster who looked like my former self. "In a way we are the ones to execute John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?" I was beginning to understand. An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers.

Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough. *Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust.

To live is to betray the dead. We hasten to bury and forget them because we are ashamed; we feel guilty towards them.