Legacy

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. – Anon.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. – Agesilaus II

I – Louisa May Alcott

The only thing you take with you when youre gone is what you leave behind. – John Allston

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. – John Arbuthnot

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. – W. H. Auden

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour

Every man – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. – Augusto Roa Bastos

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldnt be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. – Catherine Drinker Bowen

A mans memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. – Fawn M. Brodie

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle