Murmuring Quotes

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Truth, Listening, Subconscious

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

  Paul Tillich

  Nature, Moving, Voice

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• The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.300

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• A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Unbroken, Green

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Rain, Fall

  William Wordsworth, Myles Birket Foster, Sir John Gilbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT, Joseph WOLF (Artist.) (1859). “Poems of William Wordsworth. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott ... Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel”, p.208

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Twilight, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.98

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• Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Prayer, Giving, Care

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 465. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Deep Water, Wind

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

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• The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Stars, Secret Places

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.568, e-artnow

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• And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Country, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.502

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• The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.

  William Crookes

  Dream, Sea, Elements

  "Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements (New Edition)" by John Emsley, (p. 266), October 1, 2011.

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• They lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.321

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Hide me from day's garish eye.

  John Milton

  Eye

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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• Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

  Joyce Meyer

  Past, Missing, Blame

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Heart

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 03, 2011

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• When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Reality, Weather, Complaining

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.48, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Problem

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  Kate Chopin

  Tangled, Soul, World

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

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• Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Years, Praying, Minutes

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.363, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Proud, Rich

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

  Douglas Wilson

  Ungrateful People, Heart, Thinking

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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