Donna Karan Quotes

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

What’s written remains, though a writer is buried beneath the ground.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.