James Dean Quotes

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.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Men die but an idea does not.

I don't intend to die.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.