Jostein Gaarder Quotes

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

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

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

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.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

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.

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

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

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.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

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.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

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