Murmurs Quotes
33 quotes by 27 authors
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely…
— Mary Webb
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In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and…
— Bettina Skrzypczak
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I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from…
— Deborah Levy
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Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness…
— John Flavel
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And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.
— Richard Crashaw
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.
— Nicholas Roerich
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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were…
— Linda Hogan
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...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
— Gaston Bachelard
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He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
— William Wordsworth
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It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
— Martial
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Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like…
— William Wordsworth
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During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart…
— Augusto Pinochet
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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
— Voltaire
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags…
— Orson F. Whitney
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We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are…
— Rachel Cohn
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading…
— Jack London
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Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an…
— Joseph Conrad
Who Wrote These Murmurs Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 33 Murmurs Quotes, led by these top contributors: