David Eagleman Quotes

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?

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

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

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

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

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

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

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.

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

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

I shall not altogether die.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

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.

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.