Splendour Quotes - Page 4

• And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Fire, Space

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Taken, Dark

  Alexander Smith (1914). "Dreamthorp"

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• La pobreza tiene, en las grandes ciudades, apariencias muy diferentes; a menudo se oculta en el esplendor, y a menudo en la extravagancia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cities, Different, Extravagance

  Samuel Johnson (2009). "Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings", p.303, Harvard University Press.

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Adventure, Vision

  William McFee (1921). "Puertos de la memoria"

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• Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Being Free, Clutter

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• The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!

  David Berg

  Moon, Cities, Sun

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• En nuestras bellas artes, el objetivo no es la imitación, sino la creación... Los detalles, la prosa de la naturaleza, debe omitirlos, y darnos sólo el espíritu y el esplendor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

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• I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Pain, Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• Los mejores cuadros son siempre aquellos con los que uno sueña cuando está fumando en pipa en la cama, pero que nunca llegan a hacerse. Pero aun así uno debe intentarlo, por muy incompetente que se sienta ante la inefable perfección y el radiante esplendor de la naturaleza.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Perfection, Smoking

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

  David Hume

  Passion, School, Dancing

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'The Sceptic'

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• Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Shining, Age

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.221, JHU Press

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• The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Justice, Community

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics

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• I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!

  David Berg

  Want, Magnificence, Able

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• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Drama, Hands

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• A medida que el auténtico impulso religioso se hace dominante, la adoración toma cada vez más las riendas. Vengo a buscar a Dios porque lo necesito", puede ser una fórmula adecuada para la oración. Vengo a adorar su esplendor y a arrojarme a sus pies con todo lo que tengo", es la única fórmula posible de adoración.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Religioso, Oración, Pies

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). "Worship", p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Doors, World

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hoy me levanto
  Por la fuerza del cielo:
  Luz del sol
  Brillo de luna
  Esplendor del fuego
  Velocidad del rayo
  Velocidad del viento
  Profundidad del mar
  Estabilidad de la tierra
  Firmeza de la roca

  Saint Patrick

  Nature, Moon, Fire

  "Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century". Book by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, John Meyendorff, 1986.

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• Uno de los elementos más importantes -y más descuidados- en el inicio de la vida interior es la capacidad de responder a la realidad, de ver el valor y la belleza en las cosas ordinarias, de cobrar vida ante el esplendor que nos rodea.

  Thomas Merton

  Belleza, Realidad, Importante

  Thomas Merton (2005). "No Man is an Island" (Ningún hombre es una isla), p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.

  Pope John Paul II

  Body, Humans, Preserves

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• No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Fate, Artist, Effort

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• Por mi parte, lo que desearía obtener del dinero sería ocio con seguridad. Pero lo que el típico hombre moderno desea obtener con él es más dinero, con vistas a la ostentación, el esplendor y el eclipsamiento de quienes hasta ahora han sido sus iguales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Views, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Two Sides, Mind

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• La crueldad hacia los animales mudos es uno de los vicios distintivos de las mentes bajas y viles. Dondequiera que se encuentre, es una marca segura de ignorancia y mezquindad; una marca que todas las ventajas externas de riqueza, esplendor y nobleza no pueden borrar. No es consistente ni con el aprendizaje ni con la verdadera civilidad.

  William Jones

  Ignorance, Animal, Dumb

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• I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Kind, Standing Out, Figures

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

  Heródoto

  Vida, Felicidad, Real

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