Cathedral Quotes

124 quotes by 107 authors

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. — Emily Dickinson
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car… — Stephen Dobyns
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad… — Hermann Hesse
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe.… — Richard Siken
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city… — Terry Pratchett
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean… — Michael Ondaatje
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of… — Annie Dillard
In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when… — Isaac Marion
It seemed she was in a cathedralâ€”if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water… — Laini Taylor
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the… — Joan Didion
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. — Dave Eggers
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethovenâ€™s â€œNinth Symphonyâ€,… — Brennan Manning
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of… — Edwin Way Teale
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in… — Hubert H. Humphrey
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who… — Sinclair Lewis
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the… — Bayard Taylor
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and… — Margaret Atwood

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