Violin Quotes

236 Violin quotes by 186 unique authors

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more… — William Nicholson
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one… — Jean Rhys
…the violin — that most human of all instruments… — Louisa May Alcott
Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know… — Graham Joyce
Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in… — Koushun Takami
I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case — Tomas Transtromer
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,… — David Mitchell
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready… — Hermann Hesse
He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he… — Cassandra Clare
The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again. — Julia Quinn
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.… — Elie Wiesel
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. — Cassandra Clare
In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music… — Brandon Mull
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. — Josephine Baker
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. — Arthur Conan Doyle
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is… — Neal A. Maxwell
I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play… — Jim Butcher
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. — Alain de Botton
Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the… — Cassandra Clare
Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her… — Cassandra Clare
Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out,… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his… — Melina Marchetta
Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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