Echoes Quotes - Page 19

• Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.

  J.R. Ward

  Past, Shadow, Depth

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.267, Penguin

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

  Milan Kundera

  Laughter, Games, Choices

  6 Copy quote

• And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

  Lady Gregory

  Lonely, Grief, Fighting

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.108, eBookIt.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Tree, Black

  10 Copy quote

• That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Scary Stories, Tears

  4 Copy quote

• Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

  E. M. Forster

  Silence, Arches

  42 Copy quote

• I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Zoos, Thinking, Age Difference

  Michel Houellebecq (2006). “The Possibility of an Island”, p.148, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

  Janet Fitch

  Sound, Nowhere To Go

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.27, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

  John Piper

  Feelings, Perception, Mind

  328 Copy quote

• What do you think love is - a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hurt, Heart, Love Is

  "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". Book by Patricia A. McKillip, 1974.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Thinking, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.16

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

  Henri Barbusse

  People, Looks, Moments

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.65, 1st World Publishing

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Doe, Repeats

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.116, gfdg hfdhdg

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

  Mary Griffith

  Children, Home, Bisexual

  48 Copy quote

• Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

  Hugh Nibley

  Reflection, Different, Contribution

  27 Copy quote

• Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

  John Green

  Mistake, Passion, Character

  4 Copy quote

• A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Voice, Faithful, Soul

  8 Copy quote

• I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

  Aimee Bender

  Participants

  4 Copy quote

• I count no more my wasted tears;
  They left no echo of their fall;
  I mourn no more my lonesome years;
  This blessed hour atones for all.
  I fear not all that Time or Fate
  May bring to burden heart or brow,-
  Strong in the love that came so late,
  Our souls shall keep it always now!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Famous Love, Strong, Fall

  Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

  Alexander Smith

  Memories, Fire, Years

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. "That's what you wanted, isn't it?" It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. "Yes," she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. "That's what I wanted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Ashes”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Loss

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Morning, Wall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Fall, Passion

  6 Copy quote