Posthumous Influence Quotes

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.