Tumult Quotes

• The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

  Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

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• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

  Georges Bataille

  Love, Taken, Reality

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.179, U of Minnesota Press

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• And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Looks, Crowds

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• Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

  Don Williams

  Sea, Wave, Crash

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• In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, History, Temptation

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946”

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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, Murmuring

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

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• Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Life, Hardest

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  Thomas Paine “Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Humble, Sacrifice

  "Recessional" st. 2 (1897)

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• Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Time, Motivation

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.228, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
  Lest we forget--lest we forget!

  Rudyard Kipling

  God, Host, Forget

  "Recessional" st. 1 (1897)

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• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Latin, Voice, People

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• But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken, Foam, Atoms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

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• ...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Men, Yield

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• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

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• Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

  Gerald May

  Peace, Lying, Ocean

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• Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
  Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place
  Amid the tumult of reverberant strife
  'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,
  That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,
  Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?

  Sarojini Naidu

  Dream, Hope, Sweet

  Shiri R. Bakshi, Sarojini Naidu, Bishamber D. Yadav (1990). “Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu”

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• In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

  Tacitus

  Men, Quiet, Virtue

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.141, London : Macmillan

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• And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiration, Hymns, Addiction

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• Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

  Sun Tzu

  Real, Battle, May

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Philosophy, Struggle, August

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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• Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Envy, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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