Quotes About Sounds Of Silence

#1. The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Paul Simon

#2. In every moment of every day, through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself, is Divinity revealing Itself. Yet we do not see. Or we see, but do not believe. We do not believe the evidence of our own eyes. We do not hear the truth in the sounds of silence.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence.

Paul Simon

#4. I read the graffiti written on the walls of my brain. Then I use my writing to give it voice so it won't simply be "whispered in the sounds of silence." (Apologies to Paul Simon)

Dick Peterson

#5. The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time.

Maureen Dowd

#6. My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi

#7. Actually, I'm at his place. He's cooking for me."
There was a long silence on the other end of the line.
"Really," he finally said, through what sounded like clenched teeth.
Taylor smiled into the phone. "Why, Jason - that sounds a bit like jealousy, doesn't it?

Julie James

#8. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Carl Jung

#10. One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Andre Kostelanetz

#11. Remember. Oh, remember. How remember moments of forgotten time? Where is the way now (she wondered) through that dark up-spreading wood? Leaf, locust, sunlight in the hollow, all those she had known, all had fled like years. Now silence sounds where no light falls, and she has lost the way.

William Styron

#12. A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Patrick McGrath

#13. The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Anna Kamienska

#15. The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. Its the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.

Eva Hart

#16. Did you see any of us there?" Kassad said nothing for more than a minute. The soft sounds of the river and the ship's rigging suddenly seemed very loud. Finally Kassad took a breath. "Yes." Silence stretched again. Brawne Lamia broke it. "Will you tell us who?" "No.

Dan Simmons

#17. It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

Jean Klein

#18. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.

William Cowper

#19. Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

Thomas Moore

#21. When sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

Markus Peterson

#22. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Czeslaw Milosz

#23. That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Paul Brunton

#24. Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

Guy De La Valdene

#25. If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

Dejan Stojanovic

#27. Love is not a fairground it needs no noise no sounds just the silence of your first kiss

Colin Tegerdine

#28. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

Joseph Conrad

#29. There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

Lady Gregory

#30. Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

Susan Sontag

#31. To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

Truth Devour

#33. Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.

Gerard De Marigny

#34. Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

Carl Henegan

#35. Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

Roderick L. Evans

#36. All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.

Eowyn Ivey