Shane Douglas Quotes

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

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

People will forget me pretty quick.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

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

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

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

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

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.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

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.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

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

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.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

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.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.