Quotes About Solemn

Finally, as the first trace of dawn peeked through a window, he accepted the solemn reality that it was time for the killing.

I think you are wonderful and deserve all the kisses in the world...on the condition that all the kisses must be provided by me.

The fact is, that, of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn…The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The funeral. The one with presidents and ministers and secretaries of this or that, representing these or those, all decked out and solemn in black and respect. It was the biggest funeral ever, somebody had said. Everyone who was anyone, everywhere that was anywhere, had somebody, a Somebody, in attendance. Nobody wanted to miss the funeral.

There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth

He'd make a lovely corpse.

I dare you to let me be your one & only.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life

Love is a deep well from which you may drink often, but into which you may fall but once

I am yours, Morrighan, forever yours … and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

He was very solemn; she wasn't. Phaedra couldn't stop smiling.

It was you. Always . Only ever you.

I officially declare the opening of the First Danielle Fox Memorial," Abbie pronounced solemnly.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.

The wilderness has a mysterious tongue Which teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild, So solemn, so serene, that man may be, But for such faith, with nature reconciled;

when the fifty selected pool reporters were finally allowed in on the first morning they all remarked to their audiences how solemn and dignified the chamber was.

When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.