Terry Pratchett Quotes

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I want to be remembered.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

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

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.