Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in…

— Will Smith

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.”

— Barry Webster

“(...) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness,…

— Thomas Mann

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“...nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.”

— Thomas Mann

“Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again…

— Blaise Tshibwabwa

“The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“The deaths—tiny ones, false ones, real ones—we undertake in the name of love are the closest that we ever come to greatness.”

— Amanda Lee Koe

“The most genuine things are also the rarest.”

— VD