Quotes About Not Being Remembered

#1. That recurrent dream had the quality of not being remembered except within the dream itself

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Carla H. Krueger

#3. It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here I want to live forever; and it is no matter that I must die.

N. Scott Momaday

#4. Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.

John Green

#5. Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.

Frank Herbert

#6. To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

Ayelet Waldman

#8. How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!

Barbara Johnson

#9. Someone who leaves something behind to define himself is doomed to be forgotten. Someone who leaves behind something to define humanity is worthy of being remembered.

Anthony Labson

#10. I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.

Marv Levy

#11. Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Ruth Rendell

#12. He was flying over India now, still making notes. He remembered hearing an Indian politician on TV talking about the British prime minister and being unable to pronounce her name properly. "Mrs. Torture," he kept saying. "Mrs. Margaret Torture." This was unaccountably funny.

Salman Rushdie

#13. I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

Rob Brown

#14. Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. I'd like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don't entertain, nobody's listening.

Budd Schulberg

#16. One of the attractions of moving away into te life of employment, I think, is being disconnected and free, unbothered by membership. It is a life of beginnings without memories, but i is a life too that ends without being remembered.

Wendell Berry

#17. What makes a person hate themselves?"
"Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.

Rich Sommer

#20. Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Arnold Rothstein

#21. Pick something else".
For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.

Vonda N. McIntyre

#22. I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

Paul Newman

#23. If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Isaiah Thomas

#24. I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

Kevin Costner

#25. 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.

Sean Lennon

#26. I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

Tim Rice

#27. Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Habeeb Akande

#28. I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

Angela Bassett

#29. Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God's name is memorised by me. That doesn't mean they don't exist, Dr.Mukherjee.

Sambhav Ratnakar

#30. Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

Giorgio Armani

#31. To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!

Sourav Ganguly

#32. It does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.

Lynn Schooler

#33. No human being who is in their centre can be hypnotised. That's what needs to be remembered. No human being who is in their centre, who is being guided, who is close to their intuition, who is a sharp, critical apparatus, who has got a sharp sense of judgement, can ever be manipulated.

Michael Tsarion

#34. Amy looked up at him. Their faces were very close. She remembered when those dark expressive eyes would make her quiver inside, when being this close would make her blush and stammer. Not anymore, though.

Jude Watson

#35. She turned and walked away, and Thomas sat there, hoping his face hadn't flushed bright red when he remembered her being close to him in the Underneath.

James Dashner

#36. I love you. I'm happier right now than I ever remembered being.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#37. It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Neal Shusterman

#38. I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

Marissa Moss

#39. She remembered the days when they'd been each other's everything, when just being together was enough. When she believed their love could conquer the world. How long had it been since Michael had said her name in that special way, when they'd talked all night about their dreams and their future?

Dominique Wilson

#40. She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#41. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"

Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.

Willa Cather

#42. Sometimes you couldn't face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

Ann Brashares

#43. If I want to be remembered as anything in this life it's just 'nice'.I feel like being nice to others is the coolest thing anyone can be.

Troye Sivan

#44. To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

J.R. Rim

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

Christopher Moore

#46. I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

Vashti Bunyan

#47. Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.

Diane Setterfield

#48. Oh." My spirits fell. I remembered Grover as being quite resourceful, but if he was dealing with California's natural disasters, he was unlikely to be back anytime in the next decade.

Rick Riordan

#49. I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

Michael K. Williams

#50. I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

Thomm Quackenbush

#51. He remembered the Professor's advice to his eager employees during his first year: With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world of television, there are only seven feelings: well-being, Schadenfreude, sentimentality, shock, outrage, disgust, and anger. Nothing else.

Erik Valeur

#52. There is a big difference between knowing and understanding. If I had a choice of being remembered as a knowledgeable or an understanding man,give me understanding... hands down. RW

Rob Wood

#53. Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Cornelia Funke

#54. For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I think she was supposed to babysit me but she immediately ran across the street to her friend's house.

Kathleen Hanna

#55. As someone had said, all you had to do was to keep your insanity under control.
You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

Paulo Coelho

#56. Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another
unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

John Green

#57. Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs ... in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#58. To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

#59. I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life ...

Oscar Wilde

#60. I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

Scott Spencer

#61. Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

Ann Aguirre

#62. I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Isabella Rossellini