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“So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.”

Kind Fame Empty Hollow

Author:Richard O'Brien

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“Fame is nothing but an empty name.”

Names Fame Empty Paganism

Book:The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill

Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill

“All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.”

Men Earth Fit Fame Empty Praise Blind Fruit Rewards Painful Seeking Deeds Superstitions Zeal Retribution

Author:Don DeLillo

“But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.”

Knows Want Looks Shows Able Struggle Fame Empty Bluster

Author:Edgar Guest

“Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.”

Bigs Space Humility Fame Ego Humorous Empty Profound Insane Narcissism Egotism Shields Empty Space Big Ego

Author:Diane Black

“Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.”

Thinking Knows Life Heaven Path Plans Activity Fame Empty Infinite Awakening Wander

Book:Chuang tsu: Inner chapters

Source: Chuang tsu: Inner chapters