Martin McDonagh Quotes

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

… we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

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.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

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

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

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.

The dead govern the living.

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.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

All of us have a place in history.

I'm part of history.