Mike Patton Quotes

My legacy is secure.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

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

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

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.

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

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

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

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

History will treat me right.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

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.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

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

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

I want to be remembered.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.