Terry Pratchett Quotes

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

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.

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

If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

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

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind.

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.

Men die but an idea does not.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

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 greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;

Your legacy makes a difference.

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