Sextus Propertius Quotes

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

I want to be remembered.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.