Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

I think it's crucial that we remember the lives of people, not their deaths. Our deaths are not our lives.

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

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

When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

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 don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.