Spectacle Quotes

211 Spectacle quotes by 179 unique authors

I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my… — Erica Jong
She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people… — David Gilmour
The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,… — Victor Hugo
We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared… — Patti Smith
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to… — Virginia Woolf
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. — Paul Ricoeur
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not… — Aime Cesaire
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. — Jean Genet
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime — Michel Foucault
After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness — Nicole Krauss
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest… — Herman Melville
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet… — John Lennon
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A… — Jennifer Egan
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Nikolai Gogol
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle. — Aime Cesaire
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. — Unknown Author
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from… — Unknown Author
I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge. — Kat Graham
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. — Tom Wolfe
As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment. — Valentino Rossi
St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to… — John Dyer

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