Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or

Summary

This quote suggests that witnessing or understanding how a talented or exceptional person has gone astray and declined in some way can be a deeply saddening experience. It highlights the profound disappointment and sadness that comes from observing someone with great potential and capabilities deviate from the right path and deteriorate.

Topics

Pain

By Friedrich Nietzsche

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Wisdom Life

Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,And tilt at windmills under

Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!For who would live so petty and unblestThat dare not tilt at something ere he die;Rather than, screened by safe majority,Preserve his little life to little end,And never raise a rebel cry!

John Galsworthy

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

Arthur Ponsonby

Truth War

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but so

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and

Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better t

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Travel

Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow

Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow

Benjamin Franklin

Praise

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Friends

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contes

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Death

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Art

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

Government

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like sil

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Nature Silence Listening Autumn Old