Shriek Quotes

36 quotes by 33 authors

Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so… — Charles Spurgeon
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right. — Heinrich Heine
If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek… — Elizabeth von Arnim
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting â€” its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the… — William Peter Blatty
Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one… — Lester Bangs
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,… — John Milton
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda
What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a… — John L'Heureux
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless… — Leslie Fiedler
Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for… — Hermann Bahr
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But… — Anne Michaels
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek… — Florenz Ziegfeld
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not… — Lucy Stone
Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things… — Jonah Goldberg
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and… — Emma Thompson
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is… — Samuel R. Delany
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… — Denis Johnson
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow

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