George C. Wolfe Quotes

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

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

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

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

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

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.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

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.

It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.