Eternal Remembrance Quotes

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

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

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Lord, keep my memory green.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

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

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

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.

It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.