#outlive

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#each #end #except #good #good wife

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

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

#child #her #his #horrible #life

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

#build #children #damn #die #done

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lasts #make #outlives #us

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #got #hard #hard thing #interest

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#by the time #change #critics #during #everybody

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#inevitable #life #long #long life #outlive

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

#bring #dad #dads #day #dream