Insufferable Genius Quotes & Sayings

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government. — Lincoln Steffens

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Rain spat at him, and he looked up, thinking that alone was the way to be, because alone meant you were in charge of what could get to you and what you could keep out. — Charlie Fletcher

To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever, — Chris Botti

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle

You can't have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them. — David Oyelowo

Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself. — Sebastian Pole

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. — Harold Bloom

Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
(my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do this, I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented) — Catullus

I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through. — Beatrice Sparks

Brothers of the Second Order searched her house and found evidence of Deniers activity. Forbidden books, images of gods, herbs and candles, the usual stuff. Turned out she and her father were followers of the Sun and the Moon, a minor sect. They're pretty harmless mostly since they don't try to convert others to their heresy, but a Denier's a Denier. — Anthony Ryan

Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend await
Felicity of doom. — Emily Dickinson

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them. — Andrea Arnold

Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows. — Kahlil Gibran