Eclipse Quotes

• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Stars, Night

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Sunset, Moon

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• comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

  Wendy Mass

  Ocean, Night, Darkness

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• We are in the days of miracles and wonders that will eventually eclipse those of any other time.

  Rick Joyner

  Miracle, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Jun 14, 2014

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• When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  God, Christian, Powerful

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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• What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Looks, Ifs, Productions

  Charles M. Schulz (2000). “Peanuts treasury”

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• He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Depression, Fighting, Clouds

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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  Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Angel, Power

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• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

  John Milton

  Hope, Dark, Science

  Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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• We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Earthquakes, Sun, Wonder

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• Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moon, Eclipse Of The Sun, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moon, Circles, Perfect

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• If you're outside the path of totality eclipse, if there's any way you can get into the path of totality for the eclipse, do it. Take the day off. Take the kids out of school. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people to see a total eclipse, and it is one of the grandest sights in all of nature. It's something you'll always remember, and you'll pass stories of it onto your grandchildren.

  Fred Espenak

  School, Kids, Grandchildren

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

  Gerald of Wales

  Beautiful, Eclipse Of The Sun, Rising

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• It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Bark, Curse

  John Milton (1785). “Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin”, p.18

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• You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mind, Safe

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Knowledge, Glasses

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

  Dalai Lama

  Brain, Energy, May

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• Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, Ice, Poetry

  "Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

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• It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Eclipse Of The Sun, Sun, Staring

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• Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Moon, Darkness

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Judging, Faults

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• My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Views, Calendars

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• I've seen a total eclipse from every continent - including Antarctica. And it's been a wonderful way to see the world. The eclipses take you to really unusual, off-beat places that you might not normally plan a vacation to, but they're wonderful places to go.

  Fred Espenak

  Vacation, World, Wonderful

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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