Splendor Quotes

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. (James Thurber)
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
Anne Rice
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock. View quote
Saint Patrick
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
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. View quote
Clarice Lispector
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor. (Davy Crockett)
In that instant when I had seen the blazing star that was the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing. View quote
Bertrand Russell
My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him. View quote
Marsden Hartley
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. View quote
Horace
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
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 thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. View quote
Harvey Pekar
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. (Isabel Yosito)
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. View quote
Queen Elizabeth II
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. View quote
Rudolf Otto
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. View quote
James Thurber
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. View quote
Xenophon