And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether…

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Varg Vikernes

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Israel Zangwill

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

— Doris Lessing

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state…

— Bible

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

— Felix Dennis

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

— Marcus Aurelius

You should die now if you was born so far within posthumous name

— Tivea

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.”

— David S.E. Zapanta