Whispering Quotes
247 quotes by 225 authors
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a…
— Matthew Arnold
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the…
— Bill Tilden
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It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib…
— James M. Barrie
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We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which…
— Ernest Holmes
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These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this…
— Patrick Dodson
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this…
— Lydia M. Child
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I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon…
— Stephen Coonts
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have…
— David Spade
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The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want…
— Langston Hughes
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There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets…
— Don Bassingthwaite
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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
— Gautama Buddha
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As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that…
— Eileen Myles
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a…
— Walter Savage Landor
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in…
— John Donne
Who Wrote These Whispering Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 247 Whispering Quotes, led by these top contributors: