Philippe Lejuene Quotes

The living are more important than the dead.

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

When I die.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

I want to be remembered.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

I shall not altogether die.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"