Quotes about ear
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“Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Girl, Fight

“The eye—it cannot choose but see;
we cannot bid the ear be still;
our bodies feel, where'er they be,
against or with our will.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Expostulation and Reply, st. 5 (1798).
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Feeling

“So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Love

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

David Foster Wallace book Girl with Curious Hair

Source: Girl with Curious Hair

Love, Silence

“She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

People, Beauty, Nature, Time

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.”

Martha Cooley book The Archivist

Source: The Archivist

Books, Time

“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Universe

“Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

Feeling, Waiting, Night

“Let us away, my love, with happy speed;
There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see,
- Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead.
Awake! arise! my love and fearless be,
For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Love, Happiness, Home, Speed

“My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

People, Way

“You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?"
"He's got big feet!"
"What?"
An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Wolf

“Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“I can smell you,” he groaned against her ear as he ran his fangs up her throat. “The most beautiful thing in the world—except for your taste.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

World, Beauty

“Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Pain

“I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden

Death, Time, Help

“I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Love, Kiss, Time

“now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

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XAIPE (1950)

“C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!”

Jude Watson book Vespers Rising

Source: Vespers Rising

“But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Silence

“Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

Soul

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

World, Memory

“They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If. You. Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Waiting

“Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid)
Ash has a companion? (Zarek)
(The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.)
Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Stupidity

“I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Business

“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

Beauty

“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”

Patrick O'Brian book Post Captain

Source: Post Captain

Time

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Understanding

“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Love, Making love, Thinking

“Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Life, Music, Feeling, Cute

“Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Training

“Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine."

-Simon to Daphne”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

“There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

James St. James (1966) American writer

People, Time

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

God

“Jamie shook his head at me admiringly. “And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you’ve a brain as well!” He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Thinking

“Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.”

Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal

Source: The Thief's Journal

World, Lovers, Night

“There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Men, Music

“Wisdom's daughter walks alone—”
“Ella!” Frank stood suddenly. “Maybe it's not the best time—”Ella continued, cupping her hands over her ears and raising her voice.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Wisdom, Time, Daughters

“The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Secret, Night

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”

John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra

Terry Gifford, EWDB, pages 243-244
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869

Life, God, Music, Tree

“They're waiting for you. Go on in." Adrian leaned close to Keith's ear and spoke in an ominous voice."If. You. Dare.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Waiting

“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

God, Children

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

“Shake paws, count your claws,
You steal mine, I'll borrow yours.
Watch my whiskers, check both ears.
Robber foxes have no fears.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Fear

“I know
it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have

so many triggers, but in some other world
gigantic seashells hold humans

to their ears and listen to the echo
of machines.”

Jeffrey McDaniel (1967) American writer

Stupidity, World

“Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace)
Boobs? (Julian)
Breasts. (Grace)
You have very nice breasts. (Julian)
Thanks. What about you? (Grace)
I have no breasts. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”

Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

Love, Hate, Happiness

“All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Distant

“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“You okay now?" he asked.
"Okay."
He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped my legs around his waist. " Yeah", I said. "Me too.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear.
'It's good practice for you,' she replied, her lips moving against his skin.
'Tomorrow, fishnets.'
Against her side, warm and familiar, she felt him laugh.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Girl, Hell, Christ

“The Shell

The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.

You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.”

Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer

Source: The Mermaid's Purse: poems by Ted Hughes

Fear, Sea

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

Life, Support

“In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Lovers, Hell

“The bargain…” she mumbled.

“You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. “But, my love…you didn’t specify where.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Love, Kiss

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Dogs, Cars, Feeling

“I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall…"
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Feeling, Horse

“The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

Fear, Travel

“He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

For Father

“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Silence, Hurt

“Nick cleared his throat. “Do not … and I mean do … not … take this the wrong way, okay?” He wrapped his arms around Ash and hugged him. “I will always be your brother,” he whispered in Ash’s ear. “And I won’t ever hate you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

Hate, Way

“When she orgasmed, she said his name. Twice. And didn’t it make him glad that even though he had no voice, his ears worked just fine. –JM”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

“Princess,” he whispered against her ear. “My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: A Whisper of Roses

Beauty, Princess

“Of course she'd told him she would, but if the man hadn't registered her sarcasm, then he wasn't making full use of his ears.”

Mary Connealy (1956) Author

Source: Petticoat Ranch

“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Heart

“My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.
Clap. Clap.
Clap.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Heart, Personality

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain —
To thy high requiem become a sod.”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 6
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Love, Death, Pain, Art

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer

Love, Light, Wise, Cute

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933) Japanese actress

Truth, Fear, Beauty, Music

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Music

“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Happiness, Smile, Music, Light

“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Inès reiterating to Garcin that they cannot ignore one another, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

Feeling, Silence, Forgetting

“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love

“Clarionet, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Personality

“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Ali's Pretty Little Lies

Family, Summer, Perfection

“You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

Dreams, Learning, Time, Forgetting

“Happy Birthday."
Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Adrian's Lost Chapter

Happiness, Birthday

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

Charles Lamb book Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

Books, Dogs, Reading, Tea

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

George S. McGovern (1922–2012) American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate

Men, War, Dreams

“Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears."

"I'm not the one talking."

Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me."

"You want me stupid?"

"Nick….”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Life, Stupidity

“If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable,” he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. “I’m doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far.” I froze.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Thinking

“You don't want to become so open minded that the wind whistles between your ears.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Love, Women, Men

“… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?”

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter

World, Music, Thinking, Painting

“I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
Source: The Hunger Games

“Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many."
" I never thought about it quite that way."
Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Daring to Dream

Way

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

People

“Freedom begins between the ears.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

Freedom

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition

Painting

“A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?”

Roald Dahl The BFG

Source: The BFG

Happiness, Music, Time

“What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut.
Nothing," I said. "Running."
You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza."
"Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Strong

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“It's a GIRL.
It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

Girl, Time

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

Music

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