Richard Dawkins Quotes

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.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

On great fields something stays.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

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

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

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

A record is a message, timeless.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.