Mitch Albom Quotes

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

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

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

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

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

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

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

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

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

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

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

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.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

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.

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

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

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

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

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

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

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.

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

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.