Muffled Quotes
58 quotes by 50 authors
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
— Betty Friedan
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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness…
— Julia Cameron
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
— Alec Guinness
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we…
— Leo Rosten
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The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
— John Quincy Adams
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies…
— Ken Wilber
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar…
— Richard Bach
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Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's…
— Theodore O'Hara
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God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in…
— Tim Hansel
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The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter…
— Joseph Conrad
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The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation…
— Denis Diderot
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Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until…
— Amy Poehler
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To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be…
— Oscar Wilde
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
— Walter Lippmann
Who Wrote These Muffled Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 58 Muffled Quotes, led by these top contributors: