Melody Quotes

587 Melody quotes by 453 unique authors

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. — Tom Waits
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.… — Elizabeth Bishop
My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How… — Robert Burns
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. — Jodi Picoult
When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she… — Toni Morrison
I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I,… — Fernando Pessoa
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars,… — Madeleine L'Engle
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects… — Orson Scott Card
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. — Mitch Albom
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and… — Gregory Maguire
When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its… — Michael Jackson
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid… — Edgar Allan Poe
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. — Hans Christian Andersen
Everybody needs inspiration Everbody needs a song. A beautiful melody, When the night's so long. Cause there is no guarantee, That this life is easy. — Miley Cyrus
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with… — Rabindranath Tagore
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like… — Khalil Gibran
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of… — Thomas Mann
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds. — Paul Brunton
He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time. — Melissa de la Cruz
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when… — Robert Schumann
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy. — Lisa McMann

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