Quotes About Solemn

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Last night this street had been teeming with people. Now there was practically nobody. Those who were there either slept on a stoop or moved with amazing lethargy, legs congealed together, arms melted against their sides. Mike half expected a patch of tumbleweed to blow through the middle of the street. "You

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

I'm sorry . . . what?" "For they are the Crows," he intoned solemnly, "and they are the harbingers of death.

I live for you, and you alone.

Then let me tell you this: I live for you, and you alone.

He kissed the shell of her ear. "Then let me tell you this: I live for you and you alone.

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it

My lady, I don't simply care for her. I love her. She is my entire life. Without her, I am nothing. I have nothing.

Joanna looked down at

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

It was a circumambulation of such precise, ritualistic grief no one interfered.

And then, standing among the trunks of the fruit trees, silver-grey in the moonlight, I recalled that the way to banish an old ghost that continues its hauntings is to exorcise it. Well then, mine should be exorcised. I should tell my tale, not aloud, by the fireside, not as a diversion for idle listeners – it was too solemn, and too real, for that. But I should set it down on paper, with every care and in every detail. I would write my own ghost story.

I swear on my mother's beating heart." "That's a serious swear.

It is these black clothes, said Strange. I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

Death is the only monopoly. Nothing can compete.

No hay caricatura si no hay subversión, porque toda imagen memorable de un político es por naturaleza subversiva: le quita su equilibrio al solemne y delata al impostor. Pero tampoco hay caricatura si no hay una sonrisa, aunque sea una sonrisa amarga, en la cara del lector...

I love you," he whispered. "In all my life, its been only you.

Il n'aimerait plus jamais aucune autre femme. Il ne pourrait plus jamais en aimer une autre. Pas après cela

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

Christians ought to carry written in our hearts the solemn truth of how short is our opportunity to witness for Christ and live for Him.

Influence is the greatest of all human gifts, and we all have it in some measure. There are some to whom we are something, if not everything. There are some, who are grappled to us with hoops of steel. There are some, over whom we have ascendency, or at least to whom we have access, who have opened the gates of the City of Mansoul to us, some we can sway with a word, a touch, a look. It must always be a solemn thing for a man to ask what he has done with this dread power of influence.