Murmur Quotes
98 quotes by 90 authors
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
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These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests,…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
— Andre Breton
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty.…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal…
— David Almond
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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths…
— Rumi
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I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
— Heinrich Heine
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one,…
— Ezra Pound
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Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .…
— Laozi
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Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in…
— Kevin DeYoung
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When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my…
— Pierre de Ronsard
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Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
— Rumi
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Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
Who Wrote These Murmur Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 98 Murmur Quotes, led by these top contributors: