They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most…

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot,…

— Joseph Conrad

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

— Arthur Symons

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really…

— Anonymous

In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with…

— Jacques Attali

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done…

— Evelyn Waugh

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan…

— Henry Van Dyke

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for…

— Christopher Nolan

The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some…

— Stephen Fry

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

— Oswald Chambers

I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as…

— Alban Berg

“You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if…

— Kamala Markandaya

No one claim, no one clamour, no one grievance when mercy comes to itself, than I take to laugh. when persecuting the sorrow of…

— Mak_786

They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is…

— Pope Pius IV

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could…

— Thomas Carlyle