Splendor Quotes

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

— Gangaji

“Dance away your density and celebrate your splendor.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor. So”

— Jack Vance

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

— Pablo Neruda

“The splendor of God's work is the beauty of stars.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Splendor was the decree of the day.”

— Karen Azinger

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

— Anonymous

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

— Donald James

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

— Dante Alighieri

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

— Hope Davis

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

— Fanny Fern

A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

— Werner Herzog

“Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.”

— Alexander Pope

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

— Samuel Johnson

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

— William Wordsworth

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

— Herman Melville

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols…

— Bob Dylan

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a…

— James G. Frazer

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So…

— Will Rogers

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor…

— Isaiah

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of…

— Rumi

In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence…

— Milan Kundera

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share;…

— Edgar Guest

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once…

— Rem Koolhaas

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…

— Harold Bloom

Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred…

— Timothy Morton

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of…

— Claudius Aelianus

Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to…

— Marva Dawn

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of…

— Therese of Lisieux

God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive…

— Auguste Rodin

O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the…

— Pope John XXIII

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of…

— James Monroe

In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool…

— Peter Matthiessen