Mother Angelica Quotes

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.

All glory is fleeting.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Our time on Earth is so random.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!