Auguste Comte Quotes

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

The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

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

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

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.

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.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

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.

The past is a present force.

… 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.

… 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.

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

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

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.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

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

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.