Death Quote by William Gilmore Simms

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if…

— Anonymous

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

— Zhuangzi

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

— Publilius Syrus

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

— Epicurus

Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.

— Tom Holland

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

— Joaquin Miller

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I…

— Don DeLillo

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

— Umberto Eco

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise