Immortalization Quotes

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

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

Some day I will be better remembered.

I want to go down in history.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

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

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

I am worth now infinitely more dead than I am worth alive.

Gallant heroes lived before Agamemnon, not a few; but on all alike, unwept and unknown, eternal night lies heavy because they lack a sacred poet.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Fifty years from now there will be statues of me all over Germany