After death Quote by James Russell Lowell

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great…

— William Hazlitt

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

— Doris Lessing

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard…

— Henry Mackenzie

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

— Edward Young

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

— Al Goldstein

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

— Marcus Aurelius

And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come…

— Anonymous

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

— John Milton

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

— Anonymous