Henry Rollins Quotes

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

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

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

Not all of me shall die.

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

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.

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

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

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 shall not altogether die.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

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

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

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

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

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