Forsake Quote by T. S. Eliot

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

— Joseph Addison

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer…

— African Spir

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he…

— William Cowper

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to…

— Erik Erikson

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

— Antonio Machado

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a…

— Bertrand Russell

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches…

— Robert Peel

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

— Hunter S. Thompson

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

— Horace

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to…

— Thomas Browne