Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Now he belongs to the ages.

In greatness, life and death merge.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin