J. M. Coetzee Quotes

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

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.

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.

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

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

Not all of me shall die.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

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.

We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.

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