Tempest Quotes - Page 7

• Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power.

  Lucretius

  Mean, Thinking, Flames

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.249

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• Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rocks, Doctrine, Thrown

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• The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sunshine, Brilliant, Youth

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Bring me an axe and spade,
  Bring me a winding-sheet;
  When I my grave have made
  Let winds and tempests beat:
  Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
  True love doth pass away!

  William Blake

  Love, Lying, Wind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Ignorance, Prejudice

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• Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Home, Trying

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• The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters

  Nancy Peters

  Crazy, Fall, Aperture

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• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla
  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.
  Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

  Dante Alighieri

  Courage, Towers, Torres

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• What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Wish

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Passion, Storm, Harbors

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• The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Rocks, Pilots, Complaining

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments. Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove:
  O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
  It is the star to every wandering bark,
  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
  Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
  Within his bending sickle's compass come:
  Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
  If this be error and upon me proved,
  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Love You, Taken

  Sonnet 116

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• Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

  George Herbert

  Dry, Slander

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

  Madame de Stael

  Heart, Mind, Calm

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• We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.

  Reginald Heber

  God, Rest In Peace, Journey

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• For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

  Cyprian

  Soldier, Warfare

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• Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

  Samuel Garth

  Break

  Sir Samuel Garth (1730). “The Dispensary. A Poem ... The Twelfth Edition. With Several Descriptions and Episodes Never Before Printed. [By Sir Samuel Garth.]”, p.24

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• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Luxury, Water

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

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• Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

  Monica Baldwin

  Peace, Lakes, Water

  Monica Baldwin (1949). “I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

  Isaac Watts

  Passion, Rising, Gale

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• A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

  Robert E. Howard

  Women, Emotional, Cobras

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more”, p.338, e-artnow

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• Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Anchors, Law

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• There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

  Walter Scott

  Retirement, Vanity, Voice

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1842). “Waverley novels. (Abbotsford ed.).”, p.227

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