Eternal Memory Quotes

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

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

Men die but an idea does not.

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.

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.

People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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

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

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.

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

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.