Ephemeral Glory Quotes

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

Every phenom goes down one day.

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

I'd rather be a shooting star than a fading star.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.