#splendid

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#death #die #enjoyment #fertilization #highest

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#beautiful #blue #children #cliff #cup

Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid. ↗

— Mike Epps

#am #feel #get #here #how

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

#became #been #clearly #fathers #him

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#catch #down #english #had #hit

Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a trecherous illusion".. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#love

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#chaos #discontent #god #made #man

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. ↗

— Bruce Grocott

#i #kept #long #more #opinion