Debbie Harry Quotes

I want to be remembered.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

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

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

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?

I would just like to be remembered.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

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.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

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.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

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

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

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

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.