James Montgomery Quotes

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

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

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

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.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

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

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.