Ray Bradbury Quotes

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

Great lives never go out; they go on.

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

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

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

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

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

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

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.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

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.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

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!

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

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

I want to leave a nice legacy.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.