Eruption Quotes

• All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, People, Torches

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Volcanoes, Growing, Hours

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.84, Vintage

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• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  Fisher Ames

  Volcanoes, Democracy, Way

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24

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• It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

  Lord Byron

  Earthquakes, Imagination, Poetry

  Letter to Annabella Milbanke, 29 November 1813, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 3 (1974)

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• The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Losing, Realizing, Forget

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.244, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

  David O. Selznick

  Grapes

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• Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Strange, Break

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Volcanoes, Firsts, Language

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• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, People, Intellectual

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• Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

  Ray Davies

  Lying, Self, Evil

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• Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

  Michel Foucault

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly under the Water, and that either by the descending of the Waters to another part of the Earth by the alteration of the Centre of Gravity of the whole bulk, or rather by the Eruption of some kind of Subterraneous Fires or Earthquakes, great quantities of Earth have been deserted by the Water and laid bare and dry.

  Robert Hooke

  Fire, Earthquakes, Water

  "The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke". Book by Robert Hooke, 1705.

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• The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  People, Mind, Becoming

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Fun, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6618, Delphi Classics

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• Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Single Mom, Volcanoes, Years

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• Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Visceral, Vulgar

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• The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Clouds, Iceland, Earth

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• Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

  Alan Lightman

  Oneness, Earthquakes, Tornadoes

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• Revival is the eruption of God's heart on a life poured out.

  Lou Engle

  Heart, Revival

  Lou Engle (2011). “Digging the Wells of Revival”, p.61, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Airplane, Fire

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• Eruption of joy at the fall of an Indian wicket can only mean one thing

  Harsha Bhogle

  Fall, Mean, Joy

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• I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

  Katia and Maurice Krafft

  Volcanoes, Years, Lasts

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• America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, America, Space

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• When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Growing Up, Pride, Men

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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