Murmur Quotes
98 quotes by 90 authors
-
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I…
— Louis MacNeice
-
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the…
— Peter S. Beagle
-
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an…
— Orhan Pamuk
-
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V
— William Shakespeare
-
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of…
— Leonard Cohen
-
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or…
— Charles de Lint
-
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a…
— Nelson Algren
-
That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts,…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
-
Miss you,†he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.
— Loretta Chase
-
If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything…
— Jonathan Edwards
-
The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight…
— Roberto Bolano
-
There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain.…
— Juan Rulfo
-
I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow.…
— L.A. Weatherly
-
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
-
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have…
— Anais Nin
-
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance…
— David Almond
-
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation…
— Joseph Conrad
-
I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony…
— Justina Chen
-
Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an…
— L.A. Meyer
Who Wrote These Murmur Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 98 Murmur Quotes, led by these top contributors: