Karrine Steffans Quotes

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

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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.

At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

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.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.