Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.