Quotes about Legacy
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
— GK Chesterton
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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