Quotes about hearing
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“The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Wolves of the Calla

“Are you sure Savitar is on our side?" Nick
"I can hear you, kid," Savitar growled "And yeah. I'm on your side."
"Just checking. My other former allies turned out to be myths.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Illusion

“I want your opinion.ʺ
ʺThat,ʺ Adrian said, ʺis not something I hear a lot.ʺ”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“You come back and you do it right now," Morgead bellowed in her ears and in her mind. "Right now! Do you hear me?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Source: Persuasion

Women, Hate, Water, For women

“Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.”

George Carlin When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“Did you hear? You are free."
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“• Dan: I love you.
• Alice: Where?
• Dan: What?
• Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

Love, Feeling

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

People

“In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Business

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist

Source: Deals with the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot

Truth, Music, Coffee, Solitude

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Love, Silence, Night

“Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Time

“We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the
meaning of it all.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Books, Dogs, Cats, Universe

“But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Lie, Home, Girl, Sea

“I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Hurt

“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) German historian and philosopher

Source: The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History

Truth, Reading

“Sometimes you can't hear me, it's because sometimes I'm in parentheses.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Steven Wright Special (1985)

“Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

People, Way, Help

“Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Guy

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Life

“I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “Vampires can hear us, anyway.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

Way

“I am woman, hear me roar.”

Helen Reddy (1941) Australian actress

“…. there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

Help

“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

Happiness, Hope, Music, Soul

“Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: Maybe, Maybe Not

Truth, World

“there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”

Michael Punke (1964) American jurist and lawyer

Source: The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge

“I’m not strong enough for this,” he whispered in her ear—like he didn’t want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. “But I am.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

Strong

“How many times… have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Masks of the Illuminati

Source: Masks of the Illuminati

Time

“One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.
"So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Swine

“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

People, Christ

“There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.”

Meg Cabot book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Understanding, Learning

“My earbuds were in, but I wasn't playing music. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Variant: I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

World, Music

“I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.”

Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

Life

“I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.”

Mike Gayle book Turning Thirty

Source: Turning Thirty

Love

“He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

“It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

Food

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.”

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933) Japanese actress

Source: Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Truth, Fear, Beauty, Music

“You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.”

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

Science

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

"You will hear thunder and remember me...", translated by D. M. Thomas
There will be thunder then. Remember me.
Say 'She asked for storms.' The entire
world will turn the colour of crimson stone,
and your heart, as then, will turn to fire.
"Thunder," translated by A.S.Kline
Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Thinking, Heart

“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream."
"I need you," said Lisa.
"I hear that from women a lot.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Women, Dreams

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

Training

“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

Men

“Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer’s certainly did.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Quotes, Coffee

“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”

John Cage book Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

Silence, Time

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

“what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Suffering, Anger

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Xunzi in the Xunzi (book)
Misattributed, Chinese

Understanding, Forgetting

“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”

Susan Sontag book In America

Source: In America

People, Silence, Waiting

“I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Fear, Help, Night

“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”

Iris Murdoch book The Message to the Planet

The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 509.

People, Distant

“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”

Bill Hybels (1951) American writer

Life, God, World

“I heard some interesting things about your performance up here."

"I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Time

“I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Business

“I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Storm Born

Truth, Soul

“Did you hear that? I'm special.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Change

“When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

"Purely Personal Prejudices" http://books.google.com/books?id=DLcEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22When+I+hear+somebody+sigh+that+Life+is+hard+I+am+always+tempted+to+ask+Compared+to+what%22&pg=PA241#v=onepage <br class="br">Strictly Personal (1953)

Life, Funny, Inspirational, Business

“I know a lie when I hear one.”

Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008) British writer

Lie