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Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please. -- Tracy Letts
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee. -- Robert Morgan
I hope to outlive my enemies. -- William Sanderson
I want to write music that will outlive me. -- Ray LaMontagne
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders. -- Ursula Burns
If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed. -- Uday Kotak
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? -- William Shakespeare
I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. -- George Michael
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. -- Edmund Spenser
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening. -- Barry Manilow
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. -- Myles Munroe
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. -- Cleveland Abbe
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. -- Maria Bartiromo
To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible. -- Pierre Salinger
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence. -- Nicholson Baker
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra. -- Michael Bolton
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. -- Jay McInerney
A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You. -- Corey Taylor
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads. -- Boomer Esiason
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful. -- Inga Muscio
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about. -- Cameron Mackintosh
The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. -- Christopher Hitchens
I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film. -- Anton Corbijn
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives. -- Cynthia Ozick
I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear. -- Mark Margolis
Questions outlive the answers. -- Elie Wiesel
One can never outlive one's vanity. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello -- William Shakespeare
They live too long who happiness outlive. -- John Dryden
It must be sad to outlive aught we love. -- George Eliot
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin. -- Thomas Paine
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. -- Peter Drucker
I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer. -- Erma Bombeck
Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses. -- Anne Sexton
...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance. -- Ishmael Beah
Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw
Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness. -- George Eliot
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. -- Tennessee Williams
There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. -- William Shakespeare
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world. -- J. C. Ryle
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her. -- Melina Marchetta
I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you. -- C.J. English
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. -- Don DeLillo
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. -- Edmund Spenser
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. -- Daphne Merkin
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. -- Charles Francis Richter
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. -- Charles Caleb Colton
If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do. -- Henry Rollins
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted. -- Laozi
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. Its important for a woman to be able to control her finances. -- Maria Bartiromo
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness! -- Akuku Mach Pep
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons. -- Frank Ocean
For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. -- Barbara Kingsolver
You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years. -- Todd Edwards
Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die. -- Suzy Kassem
Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die. -- Mary Zimmerman
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. -- Marjorie Garber
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. -- Lord Byron
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe. -- Laozi
I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way. -- Hugh Jackman
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears. -- Anne Reeve Aldrich
Thank God life endsâ??we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us. -- Patrick Marber
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated. -- James Russell Lowell

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