Murmurs Quotes

33 quotes by 27 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth. — Gaston Bachelard
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. — William Wordsworth
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial
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
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
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. — Voltaire
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
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
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
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

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