Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.

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

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.

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.

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

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

I want to be remembered.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

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

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

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

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

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

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?