Glorious Quotes

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works

“The stars are brilliant at this time of night
and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break
for darling, the times are quite glorious.

I left him by the water’s edge,
still waving long after the ship was gone
and if someone would have screamed my name I wouldn’t have heard for I’ve said goodbye so many times in my short life that farewells are a muscular task and I’ve taught them well.
There’s a place by the side of the railway near the lake where I grew up and I used to go there to burry things and start anew.
I used to go there to say goodbye.
I was young and did not know many people but I had hidden things inside that I never dared to show and in silence I tried to kill them,
one way or the other,
leaving sin on my body
scrubbing tears off with salt
and I built my rituals in farewells.
Endings I still cling to.

So I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head
and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one
for I have used them myself and there is no coming back.
Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.

I turned away from the ocean
as not to fall for its plea
for it used to seduce and consume me
and there was this one night
a few years back and I was not yet accustomed to farewells
and just like now I stood waving long after the ship was gone.
But I was younger then and easily fooled
and the ocean was deep and dark and blue
and I took my shoes off to let the water freeze my bones.
I waded until I could no longer walk and it was too cold to swim but still I kept on walking at the bottom of the sea for I could not tell the difference between the ocean and the lack of someone I loved and I had not yet learned how the task of moving on is as necessary as survival.

Then days passed by and I spent them with my work
and now I’m writing letters I will never dare to send.
But there is this one day every year or so
when the burden gets too heavy
and I collect my belongings I no longer need
and make my way to the ocean to burn and drown and start anew
and it is quite wonderful, setting fire to my chains and flames on written words
and I stand there, starring deep into the heat until they’re all gone.
Nothing left to hold me back.

You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss
like chains wrapped around my veins,
and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
it’s my chains going up in flames.

The time of moon i quite glorious.
We could have been so glorious.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.”
― Robin Hobb, City of Dragons

“Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.”
― Amit Kalantri

“What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!”
― Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

“Having the world as you wish--that is not for the young," he added, "They want too much.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor

“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is what it is...And even without having everything you desire...It is still gloriously beautiful...”
― Virginia Alison

“In pride some angels lost a glorious relationship and became demons. In humility some humans will gain the glorious relationship and become angels.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.”
― Duop Chak Wuol

“Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Helping undo her Sieve Demi Bra and French Cut Briefs a thural wood patchouli scent spices the air as I am rendered nearly unconscious by the salient visual of her glorious figure.”
― Luca Evola, Arabala

“I'm glad that you have become the one to paint my universe in color. Not that my vision was ever drained and lifeless, but your spirit infuses it with a touch of glory and sweetness.”
― Diyahwho

“It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.”
― S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous

“If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“The most glorious battles in history are those with the biggest number of dead. As if we pay tribute to death and not to life.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“God is glorious.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no one so marvelous, glorious and gracious like God.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“There is no one so marvellous, glorious and gracious like God.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Death looks different when you know that death is not an end; when we realize that death is a passage of really the most glorious kind.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds "were sore afraid." When I was a child, that phrase had always seemed odd to me...but now that I have thought more deeply about these words of scripture, it seems to me that the angels must have been more like our Christmas weasel: glorious in purity, strength, and holy perfection.”
― Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

“The mountain will not humiliate in any era, and it will remain gloriuos.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“There is no one as marvellous, glorious, and gracious as God.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my brow;
But out, alack, he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath mask’d him from me now.
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
Suns of the world may stain when heaven’s sun staineth”
― William Shakespeare

“There is far more to this existence than how men have defined it through the exhibition of their limitations.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough