Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.

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

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

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.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.