Quotes of: Solemn Keyword

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Ezra Pound

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Science and the Modern World

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

Partials

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

Phoebe Cary

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Adams

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas de Quincey

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

John Milton

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robertson Davies

When you take a solemn oath your heart and soul listens, then perception of consciousness and unity comes.

Vasilios Karpos

The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the door was frozen solidly shut, and it took about half an hour for a powerful hot-air blower- standard equipment at Siberian ...

Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

The Alloy of Law

Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel... Sleeping our noons away

Japanese Haiku

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

Killosophy

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

Petra Kelly

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Philip Kearny

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Joseph Story

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Pierre Trudeau