Solemn Quotes

A name is a solemn thing.

— L. T. Meade

Great design is serious, not solemn

— Paula Scher

Impeaching a president is a solemn event.

— Jessica Tarlov

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

— Russell Baker

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

— William Watson

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

— Emily Dickinson

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

— James M. Barrie

“My solemn exasperation was to her the silence of love.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

— John Cleese

On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.

— X. J. Kennedy

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

— Michael Stipe

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

— Anonymous

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

— Thomas de Quincey

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't…

— Bill Owens

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the…

— Robertson Davies

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the…

— Ambrose Bierce

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

— Robertson Davies

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy…

— Winston Churchill

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

— Charles Spurgeon

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

— Anthony de Mello

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining…

— William Mountford

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving…

— John Milton

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the…

— Chief Seattle

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite…

— William James

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights…

— Jay Nixon

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for…

— Elias Hicks

Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in…

— Albert Einstein

But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the…

— Thomas Merton

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than…

— George Bernard Shaw

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,…

— Charles Lamb

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in…

— Nhat Hanh

Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of…

— Paul Tillich

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…

— C. S. Lewis

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and…

— Ambrose Bierce

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Anonymous

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

— Dan Wells

“You don’t make me sad, but solemn. You impair my incurable frivolity.”

— Edouard Levé

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

— Charles Lamb