Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

If you want to become a myth, you had better die young.

In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Only the young die good.

Whom the gods love dies young.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

He whom the Gods love dies young.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Stars have their moments then they die.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

A rock star does not age!