What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.
Quotes about muffled (16 Quotes)
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
As that concrete is breaking, it will emit sounds that probably to them sounded very much like muffled gunshots. Then they would have these very large booming sounds as that barge was slamming against the walls. Those residents probably heard what they heard, but they came to the wrong conclusion. We didn't see any signs of explosive action.
I thought I heard shots, I really did. They were kind of muffled, you know, being upstairs on the second floor, but I thought I could hear something.
The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly into the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless--but his horror was still more increased on observingthat the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle
There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.
We are a generation of women that has listened to the much louder voices of parents, teachers, employers, husbands and children while our own voices were small or muffled or totally ignored. Aging Out Loud gives us permission to not only listen to that voice but heed its warnings, laugh at its jokes and follow its directions, without guilt and without looking back.
Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.