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Quotes About Eclipse

All things left her, all But one. Her highborn courtliness Accompanied her to the end, Beyond the rapture and its eclipse, In a way like an angel's. Of Elvira The first thing that I saw - such years ago - Was her smile and also it was the last.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And in a sunless realm, the sun rose at last.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.
~ Robert Gottlieb
I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.
~ Nikki Reed
It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.
~ Jeff Goldblum
When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?
~ Kim Young-ha
The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.
~ Jenna Wortham
I want to utter you. I want to portray you not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark. There is no image I could invent that your presence would not eclipse.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.
~ Wendy Mass
No doubt Confucius, as a person and as represented in the written tradition, is suffering an eclipse in Communist China because he is associated with those classes whose wealth is being proscribed as sops to bait the allegiance of the masses to the new political group. As students of history know, new political groups everywhere and throughout history have always proceeded thus.
~ James R. Ware
the gibbous moon glowed bloodred in the sky
~ Alan Gratz
An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.
~ Leroy Chiao
A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.
~ Michele Bachmann
Ultimately the destruction of the Earth is due in part, perhaps in large part, to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can't count what matters.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.
~ William Shakespeare
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
~ Emily Dickinson
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
~ Martin Buber
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.
~ Vinita Kinra
February 4, 1962: Take one quintuplified planetary alignment. Sprinkle in an always-mystifying solar eclipse. Stir in a potload of craziness--prayer vigils in Bombay, shelter-stocking in the United States, jittery sky-gazing everywhere--and you've got yourself an all-out Apocalypse Watch. Nothing happens, of course. But the Antichrist was born the next day, at least according to noted psychic Jeane Dixon.
~ JASON BOYETT
The black sky just kept assuming deeper shades of black until, suddenly, it had blacked itself out entirely.
~ Alexander Frater
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own.
~ Alexander Pope
You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.
~ Israelmore Ayivor