Volcanoes Quotes - Page 2

• [On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

  Empedocles

  Fire

  "The Fragments of Empedocles". Book by Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard, 1908.

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• Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pride, Attachment, Greed

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jul 14, 2016

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• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Attitude, Doe, Action

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• All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

  Havelock Ellis

  Time, Civilization, Revolution

  'Little Essays of Love and Virtue' (1922) ch. 7

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• Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

  George Sand

  Stars, Lakes, Clouds

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.218, e-artnow

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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

  Democracy, Way, Eruption

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

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• We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.

  Werner Herzog

  Wish, Kind, Neighborhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Space, Age

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• I wish to be
  an inspector of volcanoes.
  I want to study cloud formations
  and memorize the wind
  and learn by heart the habits of
  the ponderosa pine.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Heart, Clouds

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• She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.

  Elvis Presley

  Sex, Hands, Hot

  Song: I'm All Shook Up

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• A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  May, Size, Cannons

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.75

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• You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Flames, Exhausted, Range

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  Life Is, Public Life

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Enthusiasm, Grass, Hesitation

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• I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Teacher, Years, Two

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• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Four Elements

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Mind, Lightning

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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

  Years, Lasts, Eruption

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• I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Hate, Moon, Earthquakes

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.

  Werner Herzog

  Beautiful, Iceland, Curiosity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

  Alan Alda

  Blow, Sharks, Hands

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• One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

  John Raese

  Men, Years, Climate

  "Raese to Bank on Cap and Trade Against Manchin" by Scott Conroy, Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
  with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Strong, Memories, Fire

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• It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].

  Werner Herzog

  Islands, Years, Long

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Men, Thinking

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