Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Quotes

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

I will be dust, but dust in love

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.