Common Quotes

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

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.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

If you want to be immortal, do something useful in your lifetime.

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

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

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

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

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.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

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

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

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

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

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

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

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.