Splendor Quotes
205 Splendor quotes by 175 unique authors
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To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
— Thomas Merton
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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets…
— Pablo Neruda
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
— Louise Erdrich
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Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the…
— Walt Disney
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We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was…
— Aberjhani
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her…
— Scott Westerfeld
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As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
— Terry Pratchett
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The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
— Clarice Lispector
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a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto…
— E E Cummings
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You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce…
— Laura Esquivel
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The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”,…
— Brennan Manning
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...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of…
— Edith Hamilton
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The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing…
— Thomas Adams
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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
— Horace
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Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your…
— Charles Hart
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and…
— Mao Zedong
Who Wrote These Splendor Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 205 Splendor Quotes, led by these top contributors: