Posthumous Fame Quotes

#1. Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Israel Zangwill

#2. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.

Laura Penny

#6. I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Doris Lessing

#7. Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. What's your name?" Scapegrace asked.
"Gerald," said the man.
Scapegrace pondered. Gerald the zombie just didn't have that fear-inducing ring to it. "I'm going to call you Thrasher," he said.

Derek Landy

#10. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#11. In the absence of facts ... we tell ourselves stories.

Noah Hawley

#12. I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Laurence Housman

#13. Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!

Mark Twain

#14. Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

Erwin Schrodinger

#15. What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Elaine Stritch

#16. I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ...

August Wilson

#17. I love hot sauce. It can't be hot enough for me.

Cheryl Hines

#18. You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

Edward De Bono

#19. In terms of environmental impact, Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence, and it's transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking, shipping, and warehousing.

Leila Janah