Splendor Quotes

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

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.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

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.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

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.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.