Hushed Quotes

53 quotes by 47 authors

Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul. — John Keats
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was… — Michio Kaku
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to… — Kevin Whately
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe,… — Haruki Murakami
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be… — William Ellery Channing
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. — Djuna Barnes
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest. — Haruki Murakami
He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell… — Sarah Dessen
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and… — R A Salvatore
When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word… — F B Meyer
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm… — Diane Setterfield
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still.… — William Faulkner
Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks,… — Pablo Neruda
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a… — Harper Lee
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the… — John Muir
Are â€” you â€” insane?â€ said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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