Jay-Z Quotes

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

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.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

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.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

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.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

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

I want to be remembered.

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’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven

I shall not altogether die.

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

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.