John Scott Quotes

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

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

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

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

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

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

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

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

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.