Consolation Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical…

— Dan Simmons

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

— Janet Flanner

“EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

— Max Beerbohm

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

— Cesare Lombroso

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

— Cyril Connolly

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

— Oscar Wilde

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

— Jack Kerouac

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

— Sean Plott

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

— Walter Russell

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau