Solemn High Mass

Famous quotes containing the words solemn, high and/or mass:

    “A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
    —Victoria (1819–1901)

    “Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.”
    —Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    “At first, he savored only the material quality of the sounds secreted by the instruments. And it had already been a great pleasure when, beneath the tiny line of the violin, slender, resistant, dense and driving, he noticed the mass of the piano’s part seeking to arise in a liquid splashing, polymorphous, undivided, level and clashing like the purple commotion of wave charmed and flattened by the moonlight.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)