Hearing Quotes

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

~ Tamora Pierce

I am hearing a more resounding voice in the spirit saying,God is changing the guard in the Nigerian church.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has importance only when on is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. (The Black Dog)

~ Stephen Crane

There are two types of understanding in this world. There's the kind that comes from the reading and the hearing, and it doesn't penetrate the skin. It is surface knowledge, like a soft blanket that can be placed over the shoulders. And then there's the understanding that comes from doing. That kind of understanding is not soft. It is water that soaks into the rocks and earth, and makes the seeds grow. It is messy, and painful, and impossible to hold.

~ Aliya Whiteley

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

~ Javier Marías

Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Never believe all that you hear.Always verify the original source of information.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

~ Will Advise

Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Silent is an anagram of listen.

~ Johnny Rich

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing.

~ Jean-Dominique Bauby

You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

~ Genna Rulon

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

~ William Shakespeare

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

~ William Hazlitt

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

~ A.j. Darkholme

It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.

~ Jon Edgell

...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper...

~ John Geddes

We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( Happiness blowing in the wind. )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.

~ Martine Murray

Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every plea for mercy. For death. He hears. He just doesn't give a fuck.

~ Jason Aaron

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

~ Joyce Rachelle

He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

~ Dan Groat

I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.(The Graveyard Reader)

~ Theodore Sturgeon

Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.Death the destroyer never is late!

~ Christina Engela

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

~ Samuel Butler