Walter Gropius Quotes

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

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

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

One test of leaders is how they make sure that their ideas and programs will live on after they’re gone.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

I want to make a serious legacy.