Tumult Quotes

55 quotes by 47 authors

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such… — Kate Chopin
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent… — Francois Fenelon
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears… — Khalil Gibran
Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of… — Edgar Guest
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude — Thomas Jefferson
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of… — Dante Alighieri
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic… — Georges Bataille
I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house. — Danny Bonaduce
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of… — Khalil Gibran
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. — Augustus William Hare
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get… — Rob Brezsny
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult. — Ann Radcliffe
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. — August Wilson
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear… — Richard Harding Davis
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every… — John Millington Synge
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean… — Gerald May
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. — William Wordsworth

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