Leonard Maltin Quotes

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

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

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

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?

I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.

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

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

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

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

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.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

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