Loretta Lynch Quotes

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

As an artist, as a person, I don't want to be here for just a little while.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that 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.

Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.