Diamond Quotes

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”
― Solange nicole

“Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.”
― Sope Agbelusi

“There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.”
― Philippe Djian, Betty Blue

“Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second; a book could scintillate forever.”
― Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“Will father be there?" she asked.

John turned to her in astonishment.

Your father is dead," he replied somberly. "Why should he go to Hades? You have it confused with another place that was abolished long ago."

After supper they folded up the table-cloth and spread their blankets for the night.

What a dream it was," Kismine sighed, gazing up at the stars. "How strange it seems to be here with one dress and a penniless fianc_!

Under the stars," she repeated. "I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth."

It was a dream," said John quietly. "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

How pleasant then to be insane!"

So I'm told," said John gloomily. "I don't know any longer. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. Well, I have that last and I will make the usual nothing of it." He shivered. "Turn up your coat collar, little girl, the night's full of chill and you'll get pneumonia. His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."

So wrapping himself in his blanket he fell off to sleep.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

“Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.”
― John Green

“Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.”
― Jay Long

“Be patient my little wild one, wondrous things take time. A pearl is hidden before it’s refined. A diamond’s luster is dull before revealing brilliant magnificent breathtaking shine.”
― Melody Lee, Vine: Book of Poetry

“My Spirit radiates brighter than a diamond or rainbow...This beauty unseen. Only those with true beauty know.”
― Cali Willette, Fractures of Gold

“She got herself a cup of coffee and watched the setting sun from the corner of her eyes leaning against his back. The diamond ring shone in her navel like a chandelier of hope.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“Let us suppose that this ounce of mud is left in perfect rest, and that its elements gather together, like to like, so that their atoms may get into the closest relations possible.

Let the clay begin. Ridding itself of all foreign substance, it gradually becomes a white earth, already very beautiful; and fit, with help of congealing fire, to be made into finest porcelain, and painted on, and be kept in kings’ palaces. But such artificial consistence is not its best. Leave it still quiet to follow its own instinct of unity, and it becomes not only white, but clear; not only clear, but hard; not only clear and hard, but so set that it can deal with light in a wonderful way, and gather out of it the loveliest blue rays only, refusing the rest. We call it then a sapphire.

Such being the consummation of the clay, we give similar permission of quiet to the sand. It also becomes, first, a white earth, then proceeds to grow clear and hard, and at last arranges itself in mysterious, infinitely fine, parallel lines, which have the power of reflecting not merely the blue rays, but the blue, green, purple, and red rays in the greatest beauty in which they can be seen through any hard material whatsoever. We call it then an opal.

In next order the soot sets to work; it cannot make itself white at first, but instead of being discouraged, tries harder and harder, and comes out clear at last, and the hardest thing in the world; and for the blackness that it had, obtains in exchange the power of reflecting all the rays of the sun at once in the vividest blaze that any solid thing can shoot. We call it then a diamond.

Last of all the water purifies or unites itself, contented enough if it only reach the form of a dew-drop; but if we insist on its proceeding to a more perfect consistence, it crystallizes into the shape of a star.

And for the ounce of slime which we had by political economy of competition, we have by political economy of co-operation, a sapphire, an opal, and a diamond, set in the midst of a star of snow.”
― John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 5. Of Leaf Beauty. Of Cloud Beauty. Of Ideas of Relation

“I don't rock. I diamond.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, Crosspaths Multitude to Success

“A book that has been written has very little value. What matters the most is the book that has been read, sometimes many years or centuries after its creation. It’ s like a diamond; resting deeply in the mud, it will never shine until someone picks it up and makes it clean.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“People are inclined to believe that you're a diamond only when you have a lot of diamonds.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A glass in style of diamond only gives you beauty, it's not going to be of any other benefit.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Sisyphus would be an ideal man if, instead of a regular stone, he rolled a diamond stone.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“My crown was crafted of silver and diamond, all fashioned into swirls of stars and various phases of the moon. Its arching apex held aloft a crescent moon of solid diamond, flanked by two exploding stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“A powerful woman knows how to dust herself off and shine just like a diamond, even after the worst has happened to her.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“The family is like a diamond, with a rock solidity and divine splendor, held by love.”
― Skender Nitaj

“It’s a Kalahari diamond,” he said. “I picked a square cut because it looks like a crystal of salt.”
Margot reached across the table and touched two fingers to his lips. “It’s the prettiest thing I ever saw.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“Diamonds on your neck don’t make you a diamond.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I have many sides, and each one is as scary as the other. I'm a horrific, tragic, beautiful diamond, formed under tremendous pressure.”
― Lioness DeWinter

“I will find you a diamond so big it will enter the room before you do.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“«Inside every lump of coal there’s a diamond waiting to get out, right?»”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man