Martin Amis Quotes

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

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

My audience is going to die before I do.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

Deeds survive the doers.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

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.

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

All men desire to be immortal.

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.