Death Legacy Quotes

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.