Soundlessly Quotes

#1. They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.

Sarah Ockler

#2. I live on in the sweetness of old days
with strangers who build new dwellings
on blue hills up to the edge of the sky,
I talk softly with the captured trees
and comfort them sometimes.
How slowly time consumes the core of things,
and soundlessly treads fate's heavy heel.

Edith Sodergran

#3. I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features slashed through with a bayonet. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't realised was there.

Han Kang

#4. Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity

Novala Takemoto

#5. The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me.
Even though there's no use.
Even though it's futile.
Even though it's way past too late.

Alyson Noel

#7. There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple.

Zoe Heller

#8. He began to cry soundlessly. The tide had never gone out so far; he could see nothing but drying mudflats and those splintered pilings which cast their eternal damaged shadows. She

Stephen King

#9. The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around.

Karen Russell

#10. It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out of the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could Laika possibly be looking at?

Haruki Murakami

#11. Like dark, soft water, sadness took over Aomame's heart, soundlessly, and with no warning.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I could use you - if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first."
"What are the other - " Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, "two?

Terry Pratchett

#13. The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Paul Cezanne

#14. The painted forest collapsed into folds and fell soundlessly to the pavement.

Emily St. John Mandel

#15. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark
bottom of a volcanic lake.

Haruki Murakami

#17. With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a pencil sharpener - that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't even realized was there.

Han Kang

#19. Somewhere in the far north of Canada there wuld be snow, falling soundlessly overy the Beaufort Sea, falling over the Artic without a soul to see it. What kind of weather was that, Samson wondered, and how was one to use this information except as proof that the world was too much to bear?

Nicole Krauss

#20. Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?"
"Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his coming draw the thought?

John Steinbeck

#21. Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#22. Er eyes were the color of faraway love
her arms were matching topazes
her lips moved soundlessly in the coral light
and ultimately, she left by the door..

Pablo Neruda

#23. Should I trust this man? I want to. I want to just throw caution to the wind and shout, Yes! Yes! Fix me! Please make me normal. However, a nagging negative feeling restrains me. I know that if I accept this offer, something terrible will happen. Something terrible always does.

Loretta Lost

#24. The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

Thomas Merton

#25. Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

William Barclay

#26. Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

Thomas Hardy

#27. Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Bobby Seale

#28. I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.

John Baldessari

#29. Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.

Frederick Lenz

#30. We all want good friends - kind, respected, nice. The kind of people you want to introduce to your parents, other friends, pastor. But never underestimate the value of immoral friends - the ones that create the most precious memories you never will tell anyone else!

Jury Nel

#31. The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

Jonathan Coe