Echo Quotes

What we do now echoes in eternity. (Marcus Aurelius)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. View quote
Mother Teresa
Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. View quote
Bruce Lee
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. View quote
Emil Cioran
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Translation is at best an echo. View quote
George Borrow
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart! View quote
Eliza Cook
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
Every something is an echo of nothing. (John Cage)
When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. View quote
Ben Jonson
Everything seems an echo of something else. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. View quote
Don Marquis
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. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. View quote
Yannick Noah
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. View quote
Norman Douglas
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. (Charlotte Brontë)
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose. View quote
Ayn Rand
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. View quote
Wallace Stevens
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. View quote
Margaret Atwood