Fame After Death Quotes

#1. Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

Henry MacKenzie

#3. Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Blaise Pascal

#5. That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Anais Nin

#6. A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

Theresa Villiers

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

Aeschylus

#8. I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

Brenda Lee

#9. Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

Goldie Hawn

#10. You fascinate me." Chris leaned away so he could see her face. "How so?" "You quote Augustine, and you make an awesome campfire. You carry a rosary in your pocket, and you're going to work at a brewery. You're a virgin, and you ride a Harley.

Carolyn Astfalk

#11. Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Laurence Sterne

#12. It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

James Russell Lowell

#13. In comradeship is danger countered best.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

James Dean

#15. If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

Martial

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

#17. I know," I whispered and when he blinked up, his familiar eyes looking past the surface, burning with everything I felt, I was sucked in, and all common sense was gone.

Theresa Paolo