Quotes of: Hearing Keyword

Music is powerful; it transforms emotions and experiences into something tangible. Every time you hear a familiar song, the feelings from it bubble to the surface, bringing back memories you might have otherwise forgotten.

Remembrance

Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.

Running Into Myself

Would it be so terrible, sweet Cyn?” he whispered. “To spend eternity at my side?” But she was too far gone in sleep, and Raphael didn't know if he wanted to hear her answer anyway.

Raphael

To hear her name I truly yearn, My heart is crying out; The sense of love I wish to earn, Without a second doubt.

The Rising Lines of Wonderment: Poetry

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Sermons and Treatises, Vol 2

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

Saint Anything

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

The Sketch Book

God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn't always answer the way we want him to.

Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey Through Breast Cancer

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

Snow White Darkness

Just that one word—sound—sent a strong answering pulse through her body. His tongue curled around syllables that weren’t there, like a promise. This is what you’ll get, if you just let me hear.

Sheltered

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.

Stumbling on Happiness

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Middlemarch

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

The Memory Palace

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

There are some that even beg for the Chamber," she could hear Isaar saying in the back of her mind. "Soft minded fools or broken souls that would rather live a fabricated existence than deal with reality.

Nascent Decay

Not nearly as incredible as hearing you scream when you came. Good thing you took Cassie home. She might think I was killing you in here." "Oh, but what a way to go.

Nobody's Hero

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

No Country for Old Men