Top 30 Meridian Quotes
#1. The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
Cormac McCarthy
#2. I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
William Shakespeare
#3. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more.
William Shakespeare
#4. A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.
C.S. Lewis
#5. We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
Blaise Pascal
#7. No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
Cyril Connolly
#8. On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Henry Miller
#9. Human Technology suggests that meditative experience can be deeper if preceded by stimulation and energizing our bodies and breath.We do this through "meridian exercises", an effective way of moving our bodies to improve our breath-work and to enhance our awareness while energizing our bodies.
Ilchi Lee
#10. Youth faces forward, impatient of the present, panting to anticipate the future. But we who have crossed a certain sad meridian, we turn our gaze backward,and tell the relentless gods what we would sacrifice to recover a little of the past...
Henry Harland
#11. I haven't been everywhere, but I've been to enough "wheres" to know that Earth has pockets of stupid popping up north, south, east, and west. From the equator to the prime meridian - dumb does not so easily wash off.
Corey Taylor
#12. Death is what makes life possible. It's the balance, Meridian. There always has to be balance.
Amber Kizer
#13. McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
Clive Sinclair
#14. The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.
H.G.Wells
#15. The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.
Dava Sobel
#16. I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.
Matthew Stokoe
#17. I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated energy meridian.
John Diamond
#18. What need of Day -
To Those whose Dark - hath so - surpassing Sun -
It deem it be - Continually -
At the Meridian?
Emily Dickinson
#19. The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.
Bernard DeVoto
#20. Instrumental music was only tolerated, on account of the times and of the people. But in gospel times, we must not have recourse to these, unless we wish to destroy the evangelical perfection, and to obscure the meridian light, which we enjoy in Christ our Lord.
John Calvin
#22. We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#23. My work as a Meridian Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist has taught me that people often feel guilty about the way they feel or think and many do not realise that seasonal changes can have a profound effect on the psyche.
Carole Carlton
#24. I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline.
Charlotte Bronte
#25. You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)
Edward Abbey
#26. There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After ... I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.
Justina Chen
#27. What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!
Lewis Carroll
#28. 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner
#29. What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods
Amber Kizer
#30. The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.
Cormac McCarthy
