I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. – Sir Thomas Browne

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. – W. H. Auden

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. – Jean De La Bruyere