Dave Eggers Quotes

People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

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

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.

It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.

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.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that you still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're not using something in your now as your excuse to not let in all those things that you've been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.