Quotes About Hearing Voices

#1. To? Oh well, could be worse, she could be hearing voices, oh wait she was, well crap.
Loftis, Quinn (2011-06-29). Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves Series Book 1) (Kindle Locations 317-318). Kindle Edition.

Quinn Loftis

#2. Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#3. As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

J.K. Rowling

#5. I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Margaret Atwood

#6. I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

Elizabeth George

#7. Did somebody whisper something? I look left then right. Uh oh. I think I'm hearing voices now. Not, I AM hearing voices I THINK I'm hearing voices. Okay not voices, just a voice. Is thinking you heard it better or worse than knowning you heard it? Does the distinction matter?

Penelope Fletcher

#8. Got nothing to say now, huh? Figures. She snorted. Hearing voices was one thing, but talking back to them probably hiked her up to a whole new level of psychosis. Awesome.

Laura Kaye

#9. Insanity on top of insanity. Even the voices in his head were hearing voices. Nice.

Michael Wallace

#10. Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Maria Bamford

#11. In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

Jean Leclercq

#12. The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

Eric McCormack

#14. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence.

Bell Hooks

#15. People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight - at least as the normally experienced them.

Ann Brashares

#16. I'm sorry," I whisper. My cold lips fumble the words.
"Don't be." His voice is a low rumble against me, the sound carrying through my bones, clearer than any of the voices I've been hearing. "You've got nothing to be sorry for.

Amie Kaufman

#17. They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.

Anita Diamant

#18. We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?" the doctor asked.
"Help us, oh God, it hurts," the boxes of cotton screamed.
"Not exactly," I said.

Denis Johnson

#20. I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

Andrea Riseborough

#21. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere

Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise

Diana Rasmussen

#22. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

Peter Yarrow

#23. Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

Jordi Molla

#24. The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind ... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

Jennifer Holliday

#25. Thomas rolled his eyes. "I never said jack about me being braver than anybody. I'm just sick of hearing people's voices. Yours included."
Minho snickered. "Slinthead, when you try to be mean, it's just freaking hilarious.

James Dashner

#26. They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.

George W. Bush

#27. I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

Matt Dillon

#28. We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice ... living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

Mark Batterson

#29. I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Brian Wilson

#30. What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#31. As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

Bell Hooks

#32. The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky seemed to come down lower over our heads.

Leo Tolstoy

#33. I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules - if she could hear you ... " My voice trails off.
"Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy?" Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?

Jodi Picoult

#34. There's comfort in hearing a voice when the world is silent.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#35. I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Kelly Rowland

#36. I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

Gloria Steinem

#37. You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#38. God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

James Joyce

#39. I read therefore I write.

John David Lionel Brooke

#40. It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#41. What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

Forrest Carr

#42. We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

Deborah Prothrow-Stith

#43. Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead." It was a gift to the shadow world - tears. They would be sacred beyond a doubt.

Frank Herbert

#44. I've had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

Daryl Stuermer