John Dryden Quotes

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

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

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

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

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

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

I want to be remembered.

I would just like to be remembered.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

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

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

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.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

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

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?