Steven Crowder Quotes

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.

Papa died when he was 77.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.