"Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper."

-- Billy Sunday

#Tombstone Quotes #Finals Quotes #Behind You Quotes

“We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage
“This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.”

Source : Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.1, Macmillan
“I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.”

Source : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993).
“Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.”
“I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....”
“And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life”
“Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.”
“There was a man. And it happened--as such things often so happen--that this man we went back into his days that were gone. Again and again and again he went back. Even as every man, even as you and I, so this man went back into his Yesterdays.”

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