Quotes for All
From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that. Emma Goldman
Goodbye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say goodbye, I tell Ma. Goodbye, Room. Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door. Emma Donoghue
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer. Emile M. Cioran
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is … Read more
I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak’d for me alone, When all beside is mute. Eliza Acton
I don’t think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of – of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance. Elie Wiesel
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute. Eduardo Galeano
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. Eduardo Galeano
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was – how large of mould. Edmund Clarence Stedman
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it’s frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, … Read more