E. Joseph Cossman Quotes

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.

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

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

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.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

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

I want to be remembered.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

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.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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

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

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.