Brooks Robinson Quotes

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

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

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

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

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

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

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.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

It doesn't matter how popular an actor you are: nobody will remember you forever.

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

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

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

I want to be remembered.