Joseph Stalin Quotes

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

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

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

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.

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

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

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

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

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

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

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

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.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

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

History will treat me right.

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

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

The test of greatness is the page of history.