Top 443 Solemn Quotes & Sayings

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, and one Hoosiers entrusted me to uphold.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

It is my solemn duty to be an ally to the trans community.

Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, one that Hoosiers have entrusted me to uphold.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Great design is serious, not solemn

Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

Serious journalism need not be 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.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.

A name is a solemn thing.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.