Sirens Quotes

• Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

  Franz Kafka

  Song, Silence, Singing

  Franz Kafka (1988). “The Complete Stories”, Schocken

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• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Eye, Indulge In, Illusion

  Gertrude Stein (1954). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930”

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• No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

  Henry Taylor

  Listening Ear, Soul, Ears

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Song, Waiting

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Song, Men, Needs

  "Siren". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  Sarah MacLean

  Running, Hands, Feelings

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• We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Strong, Thinking

  "The Faces of Fantasy". Book by Patti Perret, 1996.

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• The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative

  Dean Cavanagh

  Void

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

  Horace

  Sloth, Wicked, Laziness

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• The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.

  Jean Lorrain

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dangerous, Leading Me, Dangerous Places

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.112, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Silence, Soul

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Faber & Faber

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• The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Air, Earth

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• My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

  Louis L'Amour

  Mind, Camels, Body

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.126, Bantam

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• Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
  Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
  Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
  Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Men, Rocks

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.686

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• Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?

  Lance Secretan

  Responsibility, Essence, Ego

  Lance Secretan (2004). “Inspire! What Great Leaders Do”, p.93, John Wiley & Sons

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• Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

  Linda Howard

  Pleasure

  Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Jillian Hunter, Miranda Jarrett, Mariah Stewart (1999). “Under The Boardwalk: A Dazzling Collection Of All New Summertime Love Stories”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• History is the siren song of the soul.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Soul, Siren Song

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• It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Song, Eye, Men

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Eye, Dark

  Federico García Lorca, “Ode To Salvador Dali”

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• Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong

  Ava Gardner

  Sexy, Mistake, Thinking

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• There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

  Simon R. Green

  Numbers, Singing, Female

  Simon R. Green (2004). “Nightingale's Lament”, p.58, Penguin

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• A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

  Kami Garcia

  Moon, Rivers, Tears

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures 4 - Udfriet”, p.259, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

  Plutarch

  Math, Oil, Fire

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