Alice Sebold Quotes

I am just another dot in the world

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

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

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

I want them to forget me.

I have the personality where, although my ego can be healthy, sometimes I also feel like people won't remember me, or they won't know who I am.

I'm nobody, who are you?

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.

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

I would just like to be remembered.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.