Gabriele D'Annunzio Quotes

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

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.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

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.

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

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

History will treat me right.

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

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.

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

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

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

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

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?

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.