Direct Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

— David Bowie

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

— Tacitus

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

— Samuel Johnson

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

— Lady Gaga

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

— Vance Havner

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ…

— Joseph Addison

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

— Marilyn Monroe

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

— Matthew Simpson

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

— Alexander Pope

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

— Terry O'Quinn