Pride System

Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or system:

    Come then to prayers
    And kneel upon the stone,
    For we have tried
    All courages on these despairs,
    And are required lastly to give up pride,
    And the last difficult pride in being humble.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.
    Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911)