Quotes · Skopia

18 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Disenchanted world✕clear

And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."

1934

★ 6.9

A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

Roberto Calasso

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony · 1988

★ 6.8

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1879

★ 6.4

Autobiography and memoir

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 5.4

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Dover Beach · 1867

★ 5.2

Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles · 1891

★ 4.4

He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 3.8

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Science has stolen most of our miracles.

Minority Report · 2002

★ 3.8

Political literature

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 3.7

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.

Lamia · 1820

★ 3.7

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Benjamin Disraeli

1831

★ 3.7

Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Chartism · 1840

★ 3.7

Essay · Political literature

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

1963

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1979

★ 3.6

In the deep windings of the grove, no more The hag obscene, and the grisly phantom dwell; Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar Of winds is heard the angry spirit's yell.

1774

★ 3.5

Political literature

Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

1948

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Those who say that we're in a time when there are not heroes, they just don't know where to look.

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 2.1

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.0