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Quotes About Murmurs

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon
~ Joseph Conrad
Rumors have wings.
~ Aeschylus
rumours, of course, as there always were
~ Agatha Christie
It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.
~ Aimee Bender
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
~ John Milton
And meanwhile there was the world of wonders within him. As a boy at the sea-side, Ralph, between tides, had once come on a cave—a secret inaccessible place with glaucous lights, mysterious murmurs, and a single shaft of communication with the sky. He
~ Edith Wharton
I hear stories. It could be myself telling them to myself or it could be these murmurs that come out of the earth. The earth so old and haunted, so hungry and replete. It talks. Things past and things yet to be.
~ Edna O'Brien
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.
~ Deborah Levy
there was such a lot of whispering that it sounded like a thousand leaves rustling at once!
~ Enid Blyton
People gossip even when they don't care,
~ Derek Landy
Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,And as the portal opens to receive me,A voice in hollow murmurs through the courtsTells of a nameless deed.
~ Ann Radcliffe
It was nearly midnight, and the stillness that reigned was rather soothed than interrupted by the gentle dashing of the waters of the bay below, and by the hollow murmurs of Vesuvius, which threw up, at intervals, its sudden flame on the horizon, and then left it to darkness.
~ Ann Radcliffe
demanding. His slightest touch had elicited sighs and murmurs of pleasure.
~ Sandra Brown
Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.
~ Alain de Botton
Foul whisperings are abroad
~ Shakespeare
The drink is drunk. The dice and draughts are set aside at the waning edge of a long night of testing conversations and ugly murmurs.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A strange twilight strangled the city's voice to desperate murmurs as every foot paused, every voice hushed, every eye lifted and quickly fell again, unable to bear the light of even a half-occluded sun.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Some people will always gossip.
~ Andris Nelsons
We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions—how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!
~ George Eliot
This place is a regular whispering-gallery.
~ Arnold Bennett
provenance." The judge coughs and examines his notes. Paul murmurs to the woman director
~ Jojo Moyes
shadows among the trees.
~ Erin Hunter
Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.
~ Silouan the Athonite
It was the opposite of love, and yet it wasn't love I was opposed to but the murmurs that said, This is your chance, which seemed less like the promise of a door opening than the threat of one sealing shut.
~ Melissa Bank