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The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.
— Louisa May Alcott
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
— John Adams
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
— Aldous Huxley
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.
— Charles Spurgeon
Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.
— Charlotte Armstrong
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
— Daniel Webster
Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion - and yet loves so much he craves for more.
— George R R Martin
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.
— Calvin Coolidge
The adventure was too high, its circumstance too solemn, for any emotion save a severe delight. pg. 31
— C.S. Lewis
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
— Philip Kearny
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.
— Anthony De Mello
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
— Edward Abbey
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
— William Gurnall
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
— Adolf Hitler
The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.
— Dan Wells
There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.
— Virginia Woolf
Solemn silence makes noble worship.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
— Phoebe Cary
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
— Michael Stipe
Fancy makes me shudder to-night, when all is so black and solemn - " "Let us shudder too. We may know what it is." "It will seem nothing to you.
— Charles Dickens
Magic is not always serious or solemn.It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force. — Scott Cunningham
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
— Alphonse De Lamartine
and she looked both solemn and vulnerable.
— Neil Gaiman
Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.
— Anton Chekhov
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
— Molly Corbett Broad
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
— J.M. Barrie
There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.
— Edward Alsworth Ross
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
— John Steinbeck
A name is a solemn thing ...
— L. T. Meade
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
— Francois-Noel Babeuf
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop.
— Thomas Harris
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
— Thomas Carlyle
True determination is betting on your solemn decision regardless of the gloomy realities surrounding the thing you resolved to pursue.
— Assegid Habtewold
When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.
— Matthew Henry
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man owes two solemn debtsone to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. — Douglas William Jerrold
Always the seer is a sayer," Emerson wrote. "Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy.
— Paul Kalanithi
He was very solemn; she wasn't. Phaedra couldn't stop smiling.
— Melina Marchetta
Serious journalism need not be solemn.
— Russell Baker
Or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy.
— C.S. Lewis
The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in.
— Terry Pratchett
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
— George R R Martin
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
— George Eliot
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
— Andrew Carnegie
THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION.
— Chester W. Nimitz
Surrender doesn't have to be a heavy, solemn thing. It can be a joyous relief. Finally the burden is off you.
— Annette Vaillancourt
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
— Norman Douglas
They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly.
— Thomas Pynchon
It is the Christmas time:And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;
— Gunter Grass
Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.
— Brandon Sanderson
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
— George Washington
Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.
— Frans De Waal
On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.
— X.J. Kennedy
Winter laid her solemn hands across the city and stroked all the colours out of the sky
— Kate Tempest
But the mountains were mighty solemn, and so was Japhy, and for that matter so was I, and in fact laugher is solemn.
— Jack Kerouac
If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate.
— George R R Martin
Those who hear this solemn call of life and respond with the corresponding supply receive progress in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Great design is serious, not solemn
— Paula Scher
Praise to our Father-God,High praise in solemn lay,
Alike for what His hand hath given,
And what it takes away. — Lydia Sigourney
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
— Aldous Huxley
You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a solemn oath.
— June Casagrande
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
— Thomas De Quincey
It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.
— Katherine Mansfield
My solemn exasperation was to her the silence of love.
— Vladimir Nabokov
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
— G.K. Chesterton
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
— John Masefield
Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
— John Cleese
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
— William Watson
