#fame

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #modern-relationships #philosophy #society #western-culture

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#fidelity #forgetting #forgive #forgiveness-quotes #infidelity

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#immortality #inspirational #inspirational

I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fame #happiness #inspirational-life #inspirational-love #inspirational-quotes

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. ↗

— James Patterson

#humourous #illness #run-for-there-life #life

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#fame #fashion #poetry #love

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns. ↗

— Shay Caroline

#fans #love

Be not covetous of worldly honors, for you will have honor enough, even from wicked men, if your lives are “holiness unto the Lord. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#holiness #men