I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you. ~Nicholas Stafford
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
I'm going to record forever.
Words have a longevity that I do not have.
I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.
The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.
Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.
Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.
The words that we have spoken shall never perish from the earth.
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror