Admire Quote by Knut Hamsun

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

“I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of…

— Mary Shelley

“I thought of my friends of the outer world, and of how they all would go on living their lives in total ignorance of…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There was a time when I looked at the tragic mess they’ve made of this earth, and I wanted to cry out, to beg…

— Ayn Rand

“And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in…

— Charles Dickens

“What great minds lie in the dust,” said Guyal in a low voice. “What gorgeous souls have vanished into the buried ages; what marvellous…

— Jack Vance

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“We do not really know what draws a human being out into the world. Is it curiosity? A hunger for experience? An addiction to…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

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

— Jack Kerouac

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The old men from the charity hospital next door would come jerking past our rooms, making useless, disjointed leaps. They'd go from room to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline