Virginia Woolf Quotes

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

We made 'Baahubali' with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.

I'm very much into legacies.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Just to be, overall, I want to be one of the greats: overall, someone that leaves a good mark, someone everybody always remember.

When I end my career, I don't need to win eight championships, I'd rather have done something special.

I want to make a serious legacy.

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

I want to leave a legacy behind that is undeniable.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

Everyone remembers the last thing you did.

When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.

The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That's the reason why the album is called '4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.'

I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless.