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Quotes About Solemnity

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.
~ John Cleese
We are not here to laugh.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.
~ Billy Squier
Death is a solemn thing, and never so much so as when we see it close at hand. The grave is a chilling, heart-sickening place, and it is vain to pretend it has no terrors.
~ J.C. Ryle
dignity shortly after dark. While they were
~ Unknown
and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
~ Madeline Miller
I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
~ John Kennedy Toole
If you want to be strong, learn how to fight alone.
~ Unknown
Theres a love that only you can give, a smile that only your lips can show, a twinkle that can only be seen in your eyes and my life that only you can complete.
~ Unknown
Graveyards have the dignity of air, the authority of dust.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Por el otro, su naturaleza tan derecha, frontal, sin remilgos, directa- lo que siempre le he agredecido; nada de palabrejas analgésicas-. Y lo que al principio creí ver como esnobismo (que no le guste el ruido gratuito, la alegría falsa, la fiesta, el aspaviento, la pompa, la seriedad solemne), no es más que una sencillez muy clara.
~ Unknown
Dignitaries look alike, always dressed in mourning.
~ John Updike
Yes, we are all alone in this world. At least, when it comes right down to it. We are by ourselves, even when we're with others. All our thoughts are ours, alone.
~ Mark Stevens
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
~ Honore de Balzac
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
~ Fran Lebowitz
But here's the joy: my friend and I are one... Then she loves but me alone!
~ William Shakespeare
It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness
~ Matthew Henry
to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
~ Mircea Eliade
If I am to be consort to the first archangel-Made," Raphael continued, while she was still gaping at the idea of all that deadly power in her body, "I will undertake my duties with utmost solemnity. I'll throw great balls and invite—
~ Nalini Singh
"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Only Diety Except ALLAH.
~ Unknown
A quién más quiero? En este momento de mi vida, sólo te quiero a ti. Esto es lo que hay.
~ Unknown
They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
~ Patrick Süskind