Splendor quotes
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor."
"Bathe in the splendor of your own Light."
"Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?"
"Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor."
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
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"Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor."
"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."
"The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate."
"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor."
"The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable."
"Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power."
"My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things."
"Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping."
"[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks."
"Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being."
"There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation."
"The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us."
"I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat."
