Quotes About Muted

He did not venture to say anything more,

Everything had a subdued and neutral tint; life at its best was calm and colourless, like a grey sunless day in early autumn, serene but joyless.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.

Jackson's screams were drowned out

He liked the fog, the world quietened down and closed in. Glossy turned to matt, every stridency was muted, substance leached out of the brute matter all around. Things became notions, the brash present a vague memory. By some parallel process of slippage, his innumerable childhood memories of foggy days morphed into other memories. The fog of illness, real or feigned, of fevers and flu and febrility.

Yaz startled as he heard two muted shotgun blasts

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

Imprisoned by silence, my emotions turned to slush.

The muted November light made everything seem gray and still, like a pencil drawing.

Over the past few years I have visited a great many residential homes, at home and abroad, and each time I step over the threshold I feel an anticipatory lowering of the spirits, a kind of muted dejection.