Muffled Quotes

58 quotes by 50 authors

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! — William Shakespeare
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women. — Betty Friedan
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
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
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. — Alec Guinness
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
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
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
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
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. — Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann

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