Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

Men die but an idea does not.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

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.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I propose to build for eternity.

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.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

Let it endure forever

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

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

Its name-what passes not away.

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

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

We are the echo of the future.

Not all of me shall die.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.