Apotheosis Quotes

• The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Dream, Return

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.192, Xist Publishing

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• Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

  William McFee

  Passion, Men, Sublime

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw himself into the crater of Mount Etna so that he might vanish from the world completely and thus lead men to believe he had achieved apotheosis. Unfortunately the volcano defeated his design by throwing out one of the philosopher's sandals.

  Empedocles

  Death, Believe, Science

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• An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Idols, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423

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• Art is apotheosis;
  Often, the complaint of beauty.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Art Is, Complaints

  "Dancing of Sounds". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

  Madame de Stael

  Poetry, Poetry Is, Sentiments

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• Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Hype, Gathering

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• So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Wall, Hands, Years

  "Monckton's circus of climate change denial arrives in cloud cuckoo land" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

  Georges Bataille

  Attitude, Feminine, Natural

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• To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

  David Whyte

  Art, Giving, Feelings

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• Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Embodiment, Way, Language

  Source: mikestarling.weebly.com

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• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

  Roger Ebert

  Learning Something New, Small Numbers, Media

  Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.432, University of Chicago Press

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• ...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

  E.F. Benson

  Sea, Employment, Easier

  E. F. Benson (2015). “Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales”, p.80, e-artnow

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• No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Song, Kings, Hatred

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.4

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• Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Fall, Hero

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• Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.

  Martiros Saryan

  Flower, Race, Joy

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• That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Egalitarianism, White

  Source: www.slate.com

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• People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.

  Junot Diaz

  Strong, Two, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

  Steven Weber

  Party, Gun, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent. . . . The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of [Waters'] talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Lost Love, Water, Next

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• Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

  Ralph Raico

  Honesty, Men, Blood

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• A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.

  Joe Queenan

  Real, Reading, Blood

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