Neil MacGregor Quotes

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

Art is eternal, but life is short.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Heavy metal is immortal, but we're not.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

We die, and we do not die.

On great fields something stays.

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Nothing ever goes away.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Nature abhors annihilation.