Frederick Buechner Quotes

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me.

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

Steve Sanders lives on in our hearts and in our minds.

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

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.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

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

Great lives never go out; they go on.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.