Miriam Toews Quotes

No hero is mortal till he dies.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

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.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

I want to be remembered.

I would just like to be remembered.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

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

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

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

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

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

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.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.