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“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”

Soul Conditions Fame

Author:Charlton Heston

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

Feels Soul Fame Immortality Fever Lulls

Book:Songs of the Sierras

Source: Songs of the Sierras

“Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.”

Soul Body Heaven Middle Fame Graves Verses

Author:John Donne

“From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.”

Firsts Long Soul Body Opinion Practice Praying Fame Train Absurd Superstitious

Book:An History of the Corruption of Christianity

Source: An History of the Corruption of Christianity

“I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music.”

Ifs Want Mean Soul Ends Hell Fame Devil Fortune Partners My Soul Burning Flames Satan Scorching Burning In Hell

Author:Eminem

“I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)”

People Looks Doe Stills Soul Ends Desire Found Simple Fame Weakness Slave Pleasant Etc Followers Inward Royal Cloaks Shrouds

Book:Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”

Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

Ifs Men Should Soul Age Night Song Fall Tears He Man Poet Sorrow Fame Combat Loved Ones Shed Consumed Weeping Dreary Forsaken Renowned

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.”

Soul Body Desire Possibility Objects Fame Faculty Organs Adapted Relish Fruition Objects Of Desire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.”

Men World Soul Pain This World Fame Conflict Weight Infinite Ancient Burden Immortal Great Souls Ancient Times

Book:Five Books of Song

Source: Five Books of Song