Fame Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about fame.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

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Your fame is like the flower; that sprouts and dies; and the same sun that made it rise from the bitter earth withers it.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

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Fame is not achieved reclining on soft feathers, nor under the shelter of quilts.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The fame is a piece of nothing that the artist grabs on the fly without knowing why.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have not cultivated my fame, which will be ephemeral.

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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The famous man has the bitterness of carrying a cold chest pierced by deaf lanterns that others direct upon him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The glory of the most famous is always associated with some of the myopia of the admirers.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Something must have gone wrong or he wouldn't be so famous.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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Fame is vapor; popularity, an accident; the only earthly certainty is forgetfulness.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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The sky of fame is not very large, and the more who enter it, the less each one of them touches.

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

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If fame only comes after death, I am not in a hurry to achieve it.