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Quotes About Echoes

No one lets dead poets lie in peace. We are like old meat on a crowded dinner table.
~ Steven Erikson
Hollow is the head of a fool. And everyone who listens only to the echoes bouncing in his skull, believing them true, is doubly a fool. Yet these echoes are all we ever hear. Beliefs feeding into beliefs, mindless as serpents devouring their own tail.
~ Steven Erikson
Sorry stared at the coin, feeling echoes of power slam into her skull like ocean waves.
~ Steven Erikson
The sobbing echoes of the woman's song streamed away down the twisting alleys and the last particles of dust fell back on the street.
~ Storm Constantine
He felt the sounds of life would not reach this far down, but the sounds of death would.
~ Storm Constantine
The walls in my room know your name. They heard me sigh your name last night!
~ Avijeet Das
From within the abysmal depths of a heart, the soul echoes A Lover's Tale of an Eternal Love (Through the Darkness, WIth Love - Vol. 1)
~ Sandeep N. Tripathi
Su idioma eran las texturas y los ecos, el color de las voces, el ritmo de los pasos.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What happens, if the writer is good, is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated use of certain basic patterns and tendencies.
~ Thomas C. Foster
You see, humans always leave something behind.
~ C.J. Box
If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.
~ Gayle Forman
Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin...The older instruments bear the marks of those who have already played them, the scuffs and bites and dents that are the mysterious scars of sound. In their midst the house hangs, tenuous and enveloping, a sounding board waiting to be struck.
~ Geoffrey O'Brien
No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Every house has a heart, the echoes of its owner's presence, and simple magic that turns a building into a home.
~ Ilona Andrews
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
~ Eliza Cook
We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.
~ Jimmy Cliff
Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.
~ Faraaz Kazi
I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
~ Natasha Trethewey
We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.
~ Neal Shusterman
You're asked this a lot. Or maybe you're only asked it once, and the other times are just echoes.
~ Neal Shusterman
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent / Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, / Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, / Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.
~ Amos Oz
these leftover memories
~ Tom Perrotta