Outlive Quotes

“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

“It may be that the Chronicles of Narnia may outlive The Allegory of Love, and Perelandra outlive them both. Few works of learning and criticism survive a hundred years; what it was learned to know in 1950 will be expected of scholarship-candidates in 2000; new things will be discovered, old notions disproved, other critical values asserted; but a piece of genuine imagination in fiction may have a long life.”

“I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can’t think about them. I live with trees. There are creatures under our feet, creatures that live over our heads, but trees live quite convincingly in the same filament of air we inhabit, and in addition, they extend impressively in both directions, up and down, shearing rock and fanning air, doing their real business just out of reach.”

“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

“It's kind of hard to outlive your past”

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”

“Words often outlive the people who create them.”