Mute Quotes - Page 6

• Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Littles, Phantoms

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.204, Virginia Woolf

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• We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

  Annie Dillard

  Mind, Stones, Watches

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Essence

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

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• At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him.

  Mary Renault

  Eye, Blue, Games

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• Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Laughter, Fate, Blow

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books

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• It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Silence, Rift

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 388

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• O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

  Wendell Berry

  Dark, Garden, Light

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.242, Counterpoint Press

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• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Real, Rap, Moving

  Song: Writer's Block

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• I love thee as I love the tone
  Of some soft-breathing flute
  Whose soul is wak'd for me alone,
  When all beside is mute.

  Eliza Acton

  Famous Love, Breathing, Soul

  Eliza Acton (1826). “Poems”, p.110

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• Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy Album, 2003.

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• C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

  Robert Adams

  What Matters, Way, Belief

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• He stood beside a cottage lone
  And listened to a lute,
  One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
  And the nightingale was mute.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Summer, Gone, Cottages

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1830). “The Devil's progress, a poem, by the editor of the 'Court journal'.”, p.50

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• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

  John Dryden

  Mother, Eye, Men

  John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”

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• We commute to computers
  Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
  We survivalists, turned to consumers.

  Talib Kweli

  Eagles, Hip Hop, Rumor

  Song: Get By

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• Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Drinking, Flower

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.14, David R. Godine Publisher

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• It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

  Richey Edwards

  Self Harm, Thinking, Knowing

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• We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Games, Would Be

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• If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Heart, Purpose, May

  "Song: 'Why Are The Drums So Silent'". 2000.

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• Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Christian, Eye, Religion

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• In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

  Rumi

  Country, Love Is, Language

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• Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

  Harry Belafonte

  Leader, Church, Legislators

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• To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

  Dwight V. Swain

  Creative, Feelings, Excited

  Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, p.13, University of Oklahoma Press

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• I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Italian, Design

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• And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

  George Hamilton

  Shapes, Strange, Kind

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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