George Santayana Quotes

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

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

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 could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

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

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

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

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

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

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

I’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

You live you die and death not ends it.

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

That when we live no more, We may live ever

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?