There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that… — George Bird Grinnell Copy Share Image
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I tutored myself in the art of solemnity, kept my euphoria private, and adopted a serious demeanour in keeping with everyone else… — Judith Kinghorn Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world,… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
