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Letter "E" » echoes
«You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.»
Author: Dr. Richard Selzer
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
agony, all at once, cellular, corpus, echoes, live on, molecular, shriek, shrieked, shrieking, shrieks, tissues
«When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.»
Author: John A. Shedd
| Keywords:
echoes
«The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.»
«The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
echoes, hears, inspiration, of his own, shrinks, tries
«When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze»
«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appropriate, audible, clamor, clamoring, demons, disturbed, echoes, escaped, finance, financed, finances, financing, gratifying, hall, lecture, literally, pandemonium, reformer, responses
«She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so»
«The earth may ring, from shore to shore,With echoes of a glorious name,But he, whose loss our tears deplore,Has left behind him more than fame.»
«The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
behindhand, catches, deafen, deafened, deafening, echoes, in awe of, rumour, sound judgment
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