Ezra Pound Quotes

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

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

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

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

I would just like to be remembered.

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.

I love eating healthy and doing the yoga thing, because I think I'm going to live to a thousand doing so. And that's because I don't want to leave here so soon. I want to stick around as long as I can, but I know that's not going to be the case. We're all going.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

Often it is fatal to live too long.