Quote by Joseph Conrad

“Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait…

— Alain de Botton

“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church…

— Bob Dylan

“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and sea—wave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing.…

— Harper Fox

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

— George Herbert

“He was still climbing. Here and there doors opened revealing vast rooms, dormitories with heavy joists where bells were sleeping. A vague feeling stirred…

— Georges Rodenbach

“The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and orchestrates a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“There's a drumming noise inside my head That starts when you're around I swear that you could hear it It makes such an almighty…

— Florence Welch

“However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.”

— Sorin Cerin

“Yet, the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet, the ear distinctly tells, In…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear…

— A. E. Housman

The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it…

— Peter Medawar