Murmur Quotes

98 quotes by 90 authors

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. — Philip Sidney
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
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur. — Andre Breton
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks
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
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
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
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
I do not murmur, even if my heart break. — Heinrich Heine
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
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
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .… — Laozi
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
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
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. — Rumi
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
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
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
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

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