Voice Quotes

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.

~ George Macdonald

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

~ Lauren Destefano

Beautiful songs and voice echo in my heart.

~ Toba Beta

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

~ Frederick Buechner

All it takes to be a voice against injustice, is to say something against it.

~ Christina Engela

I looked at him and the other two people whose names I’d just learned. “So . . . so this is home then?”Akinli looked at me, perplexed, then turned to Ben and Julie.“She said some girls left her here and told her it was home. That’s all she knows. She doesn’t even know you.” Julie wiped at her tears, trying to calm herself.He moved his eyes back to me as quickly as he could manage. “Kahlen? You remember me, right?”I stared into this face, searching for something familiar. I didn’t recognize the angle of his chin, the length of his fingers. I didn’t know the slope of his shoulder or the shape of his lips.“Akinli, right?” I asked. This poor boy. I pitied him in the depths of my heart. Clearly, he’d already been going through something, and I could see the last scrap of fight he had in him dying with those words.“Yes.”“I don’t remember ever seeing you before in my life. I’m sorry.”He pressed his lips together as if he was swallowing the urge to cry.“But,” I said, “I know your voice. I know it as if it were my own.

~ Kiera Cass

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

~ Ronald Reagan

When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.

~ Christine Feehan

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

~ Janet Fitch

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

~ Muriel Spark

He doesn't hear but sees the Voice.

~ Stephen Mitchell

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

~ Colum Mccann

Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softness of your voice on the phone and in person.

~ Loren Weisman

Intuition is a sacred voice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.

~ Francine Rivers

Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the Mabinogion or Mother Goose or Dickens or Dickinson or Baldwin or whatever speaks to you deeply. Literature is not high school and it’s not actually necessary to know what everyone around you is wearing, in terms of style, and being influenced by people who are being published in this very moment is going to make you look just like them, which is probably not a good long-term goal for being yourself or making a meaningful contribution. At any point in history there is a great tide of writers of similar tone, they wash in, they wash out, the strange starfish stay behind, and the conches.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

~ Austin Kleon

There are so many different ways for someone to say your name. I’m not sure I ever realized that before I met Jesse. Prior to him, it was just Rose calling out to me with love and affection or Gideon relaying his quiet approval or disapproval. Crisp, clear notes. When Jesse says my name, it’s a chord, a mash-up of several intense emotions all reflected in two syllables.

~ Paula Stokes

I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me

~ If I Wake

Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

The stronger you become, the lower your voice become.

~ Moosa Rahat

Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.

~ E.b. White

You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You're worthy.

~ K.j. Kilton

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were read with coals.

~ David Ebershoff

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

That was the day I made up my mind, I am the voice of those who don't have the strength to cry.

~ Dr. Lonnie Rex

Don’t pass my voice, what I said about! If you want to-pack the expression, the context and even the body language with it. Misunderstandings are like by-product of mishandling the whole transportation of what was said.

~ Praveen Chenna

Only humans can voice the adoration and plea that goes up silently from the rest of creation, and only humans can withhold their voices from it.

~ Kim Coleman Healy

In solitude, you listen to sacred voice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

~ Frederick Buechner

It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see possibilities.

~ Aimee Carter

My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven. It was a miracle and he wept for the gift of bearing witness.

~ Ann Patchett

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

~ Harold Holzer

Writing is the painting of the voice.

~ Voltaire

I like your voice the most in this world.

~ Natsuki Kizu

Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

~ Loretta Chase