Volcanoes Quotes

• People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

  George Santayana

  Believe, People, Liberty

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, p.138, MIT Press

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• At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

  Werner Herzog

  Breathing, Atmosphere, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

  Andrea Gibson

  Fire, Land, Fertile

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• If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Flower, Anger

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

  John Muir

  Heart, Earthquakes, Making Love

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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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

  Eruption, 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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• The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

  Werner Herzog

  Visible, Evident

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano.

  Katia and Maurice Krafft

  Nice, Feels, Very Nice

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• There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Laziness, Sleeping In

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• If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

  Alan Bradley

  Inspiration, Self, Buns

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.552, Delacorte Press

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• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Feminism, Experience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.160, Grove Press

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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, Years, Two

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• When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.

  Werner Herzog

  Earth, Cameras, Proportion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Wise, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.358

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• The reticent volcano keeps
  His never slumbering plan -
  Confided are his projects pink
  To no precarious man.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Projects, Plans

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2030, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

  Italo Svevo

  Nature, Mountain, Looks

  Italo Svevo (1969). “Further Confessions of Zeno”, p.126, Univ of California Press

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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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• [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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• If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

  Deborah Davis

  Life, Feet, Pompeii

  Deborah Davis (2004). “Strapless”, Penguin

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

  Werner Herzog

  Monsters, Demon, Creation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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