Quotes About No One Listens

#1. The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

David Eagleman

#2. If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

David Byrne

#3. Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.

John S. Hall

#4. What are we even doing out here?" Burnett asked, seemingly getting more frustrated the longer he considered things. "The orders were to wait until tomorrow. Why do I give orders around here if no one listens to them?

C.C. Hunter

#5. I've missed the silence of you listening to me." Shahrzad attempted a weak smile. "No one listens to me as you do." His expression turned quizzical. "You don't wait to speak," she clarified. "You truly listen." "Only to you," Khalid replied gently.

Renee Ahdieh

#6. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?

Ben Okri

#7. To be of no account to others. No one listens to you.

Julia Kristeva

#8. I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Tablo

#9. Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring and no one listens to you!
- Russ Cargill

Matt Groening

#10. No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.

Pope Francis

#11. The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Felix Dennis

#12. Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.

Roberto Bolano

#13. When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

Tinie Tempah

#14. ... it does clarify a tough to get it spoken, even if no one listens.

John Steinbeck

#15. The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Samuel Smiles

#16. Sometimes there's no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#17. Aimlessly
It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No
One listens to poetry.
- from Thing Language

Jack Spicer

#18. Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Merrill Markoe

#19. Here's how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That's what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

Byron Katie

#20. No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.

Patty Schemel

#21. I knew you were in love with him." Winter tapped her fingers against her elbow. "I can't understand why no one ever listens to me." Scarlet glared, but there was no ire behind it. "You're right, Winter. It's a complete mystery.

Marissa Meyer

#22. When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.

Walter Mosley

#23. I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

Mike Tyson

#24. I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Keith Urban

#25. A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

Carolyn Kizer

#26. Almost no one reads poems, almost everyone listens to songs. And if songs were, nowadays, a way to get people to poetry and poetry to people?

Luigina Sgarro

#27. Who listens to you when you are at your lowest lows? No one. But it is the best time when you should listen to your calling.

Aporva Kala

#28. Poetry listens to me when I am silent and understands me when no one else seems to be able to.

Delano Johnson

#29. I was proud of my strategy. It was one I had been saving for just such an occasion as this. Who can say no to a personal matter? Even God is curious about such things, which is why He listens to our prayers.

Alan Bradley

#30. The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Barney Frank

#31. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

#32. When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.'12

Eugene H. Peterson

#33. Because no one ever listens to the dog.

Dori Hillestad Butler