Transfigured Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death…
— Bede Griffiths
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
— David Foster Wallace
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible,…
— Albert Camus
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God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen…
— Scot McKnight
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Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
— Thomas Huxley
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On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and…
— Salvador de Madariaga
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In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said.…
— Anatole Broyard
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Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the…
— Kenny Smith
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Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
— David Foster Wallace
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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there…
— Desmond Tutu
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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end…
— Thomas Merton
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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly…
— Louise Glück
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In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in…
— Muriel Barbery
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On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time…
— John O'Donohue
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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler…
— Herman Melville
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude…
— Philip Larkin
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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An existence transfigured by failure.
— Emile M. Cioran
Who Wrote These Transfigured Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Transfigured Quotes as follows: