Kenneth Rexroth Quotes

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

… 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.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

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

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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

The dead govern the living.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

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.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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.

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.

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

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

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.

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

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

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

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.