Fame Quote by Christopher Paolini

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Isabella Rossellini

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet…

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— Sadie Frost

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

— Benjamin Franklin

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

— Bill Viola

Whether I will be remembered at all, I really don't get to choose, unless I shoot someone famous. It's not really anything I have…

— Henry Rollins

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

— Ravi Subramanian

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

— Veruschka von Lehndorff

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

— Alexander Pope

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

— Ferdinand Marcos