Abraham Cowley Quotes

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

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

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

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

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

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

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.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

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

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

History will treat me right.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.