Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

When I die, the world is going to talk about me. They will never forget me and I will never have any regrets. If nothing else, the world will know I was here. I think that everyone should make their mark wherever they are. They will talk about you way after you're gone. Make your mark. Live your life.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

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

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

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.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

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

I want to be remembered.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

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

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

You'll live forever, and being remembered by is the only immortality I'll ever need. If i only live on as a part of you--Bianca, that's my idea of Heaven