Andy Dunn Quotes

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

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

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.

I shall not altogether die.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

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.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

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

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

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.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

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.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.