Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

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

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.

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.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

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

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.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

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.