A Quote by Mason Cooley

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

Mason Cooley

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End Faithful Fame Fickle Obscurity

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Ernie J Zelinski

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Virginia Woolf

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Mason Cooley

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Neil Gaiman

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

Marilyn Monroe

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

Nolan Gould

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

William McFee

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

Desmond Tutu

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

Vance Havner

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Oscar Wilde

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.