S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Suara, bahkan risalah protes yang keras, seperti halnya sastra, tak pernah cukup kuat dan cukup padu untuk mengubah dunia.”
Source: Catatan Pinggir 5
“Suara Kesunyian
(Whisper-Psychoanalysis, Slow, Surgical, and Intimately Terrifying ala Lecter)
Dalam ruang yang tidak mengizinkan gema,
aku mendengarnya—
suara sunyi yang berbicara lebih pelan daripada desah napasmu sendiri.
Ia duduk di sebelahku,
bukan sebagai musuh, bukan sebagai penyelamat,
melainkan sebagai saksi yang terlalu mengerti
apa yang bersembunyi di balik tulang-tulang ingatan.
“Duduklah,” katanya lembut,
seolah menawarkan secangkir teh
yang sudah menelan banyak pengakuan sebelumnya.
“Tidak perlu takut. Keheningan tidak pernah melukai siapa pun…
kecuali mereka yang menyembunyikan sesuatu.”
Aku tidak menjawab.
Ia tidak membutuhkan jawaban.
Di matanya yang tak berkedip,
aku melihat ulang diriku sendiri seperti rekaman yang diputar terlalu lambat:
detik-detik ketika hasrat mati,
saat yang tak pernah kuakui,
ketika aku menusukkan belati pada diriku
tanpa tahu apakah aku mencoba menyakiti
atau sekadar memastikan aku masih bisa merasakan sesuatu.
“Menarik,” katanya pelan,
“kau menyalahkan pikiranmu seakan ia musuh.
Padahal ia hanya anak yang kau kunci di ruang bawah tanah,
memukul pintu dengan kepalan yang semakin kecil…
sampai suaranya terdengar seperti gemerisik debu.”
Aku menelan kekosongan itu.
Ia miring sedikit, seolah menikmati aroma ketakutanku.
“Cinta membingungkanmu,” lanjutnya,
“karena kau menuntutnya jujur
sementara kau sendiri hidup dalam topeng yang begitu terampil
hingga kau lupa yang mana wajahmu.”
Sunyi menebal.
Ia menyandarkan kepala,
seakan mendengarkan sesuatu yang datang dari dalam dadaku.
“Dengar,” katanya,
“dengarkan baik-baik.
Ada suara di dalam dirimu yang selalu kau coba bunuh dengan keseragaman,
dengan keinginan menjadi normal,
dengan godaan untuk diterima.”
Ia menutup mata,
seolah menyetel antenanya ke frekuensi paling gelap.
“Suara itu…”
ia berbisik,
“adalah suara domba yang terus berlari
di padang rumput traumamu.
Mereka menjerit bukan karena mereka sedang disembelih—
tetapi karena mereka tahu kau tidak pernah kembali untuk menyelamatkan mereka.”
Aku menggigil.
Ia tersenyum nyaris tak terlihat.
“Trauma,” katanya,
“adalah binatang yang sangat peka.
Ia menunggu.
Ia tidak pergi.
Ia duduk seperti aku—
tenang, sabar, mengamati kapan kau akhirnya siap
untuk berhenti melarikan diri.”
Aku terdiam seperti batu yang siap dipahat.
“Kau ingin menjadi berbeda,” ujarnya lembut,
“tapi berbeda tidak lahir dari penolakan.
Berbeda lahir dari keberanian untuk membuka pintu
yang membuatmu gemetar.”
Ia mencondongkan tubuh,
suara hampir menempel di telingaku:
“Jika kau benar-benar ingin berhenti mendengar jeritan itu…
kau harus kembali ke tempat di mana domba-domba itu mati disembelih.”
Aku menutup mata.
Dan saat itulah aku tersadar
keheningan tidak lagi menjadi musuh—
melainkan satu-satunya suara yang mau mendengarkanku
tanpa menghujat
tanpa menghakimi.
November 2025”
“suara lirih di masjid-masjid-Mu
tak semeriah hiburan dan jajanan
buka dua puluh empat jam
sehari”
Source: Surat-Surat dari Kota
“suara-suara itu tak bisa dipenjarakan
di sana bersemayam kemerdekaan
apabila engkau memaksa diam
aku siapkan untukmu: pemberontakan!”
“Suarez did fit in the style of the team quickly. I think his arrival was practically perfect. And us 3 fit in a fantastic way. We used to understand each other even without having so much of playing time together. I think we were missing the icing on the cake, and it was [ Luis Alberto] Suarez.”
“Suarez will improve and he will get better.”
“Suatu kali hidup melambungkanmu setinggi langit,kali lainnya hidup menghempaskanmu begitu keras ke bumi”
Source: Autumn in Paris
“Suatu malam ia bermimpi didatangi oleh suami dan anaknya. Kepadanya mereka menceritakan tentang bagaimana orang di surga hidup saling mencintai. Tak ada negara dan tentara. Tak ada Gereja dan pemimpin agama. Tak ada yang bertengkar dan memperebutkan sesuatu, bahkan nama baik sekalipun.”
Source: Orang-Orang Oetimu
“Suatu malam mereka memoleskan diri mereka dari kepala sampai ke ujung kaki dengan selei buah persik dan kemudian saling menjilat tubuh masing-masing seperti anjing lalu melakukan persetubuhan yang gila di atas lantai di beranda dan mereka terbangun karena suara gemuruh semut-semut pemakan daging yang siap melahap mereka hidup-hidup.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Suatu masyarakat paling primitif pun, misalnya di jantung Afrika sana, tak pernah duduk di bangku sekolah, tak pernah melihat kitab dalam hidupnya, tak kenal baca-tulis, masih dapat mencintai sastra, walau sastra lisan.”
Source: Bumi Manusia
“Suatu saat, ketika kamu terpaksa berubah menjadi yang bukan dirimu, kamu harus selalu ingat kalau ada gadis yang mencintaimu tanpa peduli seaneh apa pun dirimu. Yaitu aku.”
Source: Elipsis
“Suatu saat, mencintai adalah memutar hari tanpa seseorang yang kau cintai. Sebab, dengan atau tanpa seseorang yang kamu kasihi, hidup harus tetap dijalani.”
“Suatu waktu ia bercerita tentang kekalahan terbesar dalam hidupnya, "Saat saling memandang aku tak menemukan diriku lagi dalam matanya", bisiknya lirih.”
“Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.”
“Suave
qui peut—let those who can save themselves
save themselves.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Sub-consciousness does not set its own goal but helps to achieve the goals that have already been set”
“Sub-consciousness is extremely selfish, it will do anything to keep you safe and main in a comfort zone”
“Sub Rosa
In the company
of horrors
I learned the
scales of mercy”
Source: The Hurricane Lamp
“Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.”
“Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.”
“Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.”
Source: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
“Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.”
Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics
“Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.”
Source: The Three
“Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities. They are understood as interconnections between the observer, their preparation of an experiment, and the subsequent results. The bottom line is that space isn't something that objects are in. Position and momentum are just part of the meta-object's frequencies equation.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.”
Source: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
“Subbu, we had to meet. You are my friend and brother from another mother.”
“Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.”
“Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.”
“Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.”
Source: THE VENUS SERIES - The Amtor of Venus Collection: Complete Edition (Pirates of Venus, Lost on Venus, Carson of Venus & Escape on Venus): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The Mucker, Pellucidar, The Moon Maid, Tarzan at the Earth's Core and many more
“Subconsciously he knew why it was happening, but a truth suppressed is a reality ignored.”
“Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.”
“Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.”
“Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.”
“subcultures are liable to influence extensively the everyday lives of participants in practice, and that, more often than not, this concentrated involvement will last years rather than months”
Source: Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture
“Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa. É obra de séculos.”
“Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.”
Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .”
“Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.”
Source: A Thankful Heart in a World of Hurt
“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”
“Subhanallah, aku mengunjunginya. Ini masjid yang sering kulihat gambarnya di kalender, di foto-foto haji ayah dan ibuku.”
Source: Miss Backpacker Naik Haji
“Subhas Chandra Bose is to India what George Washington is to the United States of America.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“Subhas Chandra Bose not died in a plane crash at the front, had Bhagat Singh not been hanged by the British, and had Gandhi not been killed by a Hindu extremist moron, Bharat, Pakistan and Bangladesh together would be shining as the brightest beacon of multiculturalism on the face of earth.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.”
“Subject has the variety of life.”
“Subject is known by what she sees.”
Source: Viva la poesia
“Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.”
“Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.”
“Subject matter exclusions may seem arbitrary, but each of them has a story behind their inclusion.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.”