Top 100 Silence The Noise Quotes

#1. It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.

Kenneth Patchen

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#2. Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable; silence the noise and then prove it wrong.

Sam Owen

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#3. In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Luigi Russolo

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#4. Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night.

Josh Strnad

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#5. We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#6. It was her, Marie Antoinette, scrutinizing me, satanically silent. Some would say that Marie Antoinette could only express her hate in silence because she was a turtle. To these naive souls I would reply that hate, like laughter, makes less noise the deeper it is.
-pg 100

Albert Sanchez Pinol

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#7. I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and there are always so many people in it. But I guess I'm grateful for all the noise and chaos. I don't know if I want to be alone in the quiet with my thoughts these days.

Keary Taylor

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#8. It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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#9. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses

A.A. Patawaran

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#10. After one full second of utter silence, the room exploded with noise.

Andy Weir

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#11. Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Octavio Paz

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#12. Silence doesn't mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite.

Uday Mukerji

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#13. Silence. I hate that word. Its multiple definitions make a lot of noise. Every time the world falls silent, the sound of raspy breathing comes back to my memory.

Kamel Daoud

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#14. The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

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#15. Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

Gabriel Cousens

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#16. The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Gertrud Von Le Fort

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#17. All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#18. A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

Anuj

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#19. Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

Pope John Paul II

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#20. Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence ...

Max Ehrmann

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#21. To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjold

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#22. Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#23. There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

Jessie Douglas Kerruish

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#24. There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil. It

T. S. Eliot

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#25. He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better than a scream

Christopher Golden

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#26. I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.

Truth Devour

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#27. We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Colum McCann

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#28. Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because

Beth Revis

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#29. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sometimes I think we don't want to

Sogyal Rinpoche

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#30. The silence is screaming out for noise.

Tim Sanders

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#31. Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.

Kalki Bhagavan

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#32. The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence ...

Yoko Ogawa

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#33. There was no darkness so profound as the simple daylight they left me in, nor any noise so soul-cracking as the silence left when they departed.

Various

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#34. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Mitch Albom

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#35. It's peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person's absence can occupy even more space than their presence did.

Ali Benjamin

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#36. There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. The

Douglas Adams

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#37. In the end... I am fucked up as hell... the problem isn't that I write to someone or speak to someone... but the silence...

Which comes within that noise...
...

within that text!?!?


It really fucks me up!

Deyth Banger

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#38. The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

Johnny Rich

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#39. Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts

Jose Rodrigues Migueis

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#40. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

Hugh MacLeod

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#41. The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

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#42. In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#43. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.

Alan Moore

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#44. Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Edward Hoagland

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#45. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#46. If you work hard in silence, your success will be the noise.

Riley Mackenzie

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#47. For the first time he became aware of the profound silence of the place, insulated by stone and metal from the noise of the street outside. It gave the mosque a sympathetic air, as if it could speak but chose instead to listen.

G. Willow Wilson

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#48. Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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#49. The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Robert Bresson

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#50. Noise: a stench in the ear.

Ambrose Bierce

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#51. He says it harshly, savagely, but he does not say the word. Like a little boy in the dark to flail his courage and suddenly aghast into silence by his own noise.

William Faulkner

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#52. A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

John Keats

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#53. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Benjamin Hoff

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#54. The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Matsuo Basho

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#55. I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini

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#56. Dissonance, n.
Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

David Levithan

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#57. The pair stood in long silence. Another thing Eilidh missed. Humans rushed everywhere, filled every moment with noise. They lacked the discipline of quiet.

India Drummond

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#58. Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

Eckhart Tolle

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#59. The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below. She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust go guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.

Ray Bradbury

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#60. It was the sort of noise that makes the silence that comes after it roll forward like a warm avalanche.

Terry Pratchett

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#61. Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.

Terry Tempest Williams

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#62. 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

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#63. It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most of the blame lies on man's inclination to tune into the noise that blares all around him instead of the beautiful silence that lies deep within.

Alyson Noel

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#64. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.

David Levithan

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#65. Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Robert Fripp

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#66. When my heart yearn for silence in a crowd full of cheerful people, thats not the lonliness i seek but want to feel the rustling of my abandoned desires pouring upon the broken hearts. All the noise i want to here now is the symphony of love and of healing.

Annie Ali

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#67. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Michael Foley

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#68. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.

Adrianne Brooks

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#69. We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal ... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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#70. Sometimes silence is needed the most when life is so full of noise.

Rebekah Crane

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#71. Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

Lisa Wingate

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#72. That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.

Virginia Woolf

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#73. The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

Elisabeth Elliot

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#74. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.

Nanamoli Thera

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#75. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!

Gabriel Iqbal

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#76. Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

John Lahr

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#77. Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we're alone. When you're comfortable with someone, you don't need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.

Elizabeth Eulberg

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#78. Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song.
For whom?
You are loved.

David Foster Wallace

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#79. A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Thomas Moore

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#80. There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Douglas Adams

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#81. Don't be distracted by the noise going on. Pause & reflect. You'll realize how much time you've wasted on all that nonsense around you.

Mufti Ismail Menk

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#82. It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Paulo Coelho

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#83. Minority of people are destined for success while majority succeed because they are determined for success. Where upon, work hard in silence and let success make the noise .

Osunsakin Adewale

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#84. On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Mark Haddon

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#85. There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Colin Tegerdine

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#87. It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#88. When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

Tony Hatch

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#89. I thought it would be quieter here." [Anna] hadn't meant to say anything, but the noise startled her.
"The wind in the trees," Bran said. "And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.

Patricia Briggs

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#90. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Rabindranath Tagore

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#91. You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

Nikki Sixx

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#92. The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.

Chaim Potok

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#93. What I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it
might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Douglas Coupland

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#94. Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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#95. If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#96. Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was the only way to carve a voice out of the air and have others hear it.

Reginald Dwayne Betts

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#97. So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Muriel Spark

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#98. The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

Armin Wiebe

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#99. Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.

Gopichand Lagadapati

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#100. Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them of their own emptiness.

Thomas Merton

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