Culture Quote by Karl Marx

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

“Who we are takes generations to create and doesn’t end with death.”

— Stanley Siegel

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

“A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

“raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a…

— Orson Scott Card

“the brains of your generation.”

— John Green

“Everyone is born and they die, but it's the memories they leave behind that define them and let them live on than others.”

— Judi Fennell

“My legacy will live on to inspire future generations.”

— Germany Kent

“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.”

— Edmund Burke

“Life on earth is a transition. Death is final rest of every man. What legacy do you wish to live?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“but the young dead stay with us, they color our dreams, they make us wonder about ourselves, that we should be so unlucky, or…

— John Burnside

“Has death Become the fashionable way to live?”

— Christopher Fry