Quotes about Legacy
Man must endure his going hence.
— CS Lewis
Man must endure his going hence.
— CS Lewis
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
— DH Lawrence
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— GK Chesterton
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
— GK Chesterton
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
— Publilius Syrus
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
— Publilius Syrus
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
— Publilius Syrus
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
— Charles Spurgeon