Top 100 The Sound Of Silence Quotes
#2. Simon and Garfunkel were prophetic. The Sound of Silence certainly applies today with so many people communicating through electronic devices. It isn't uncommon to see kids standing side by side talking without speaking. We bow and pray to the back-lit gods we made.
Mary Russel
#3. When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.
Stephen Richards
#4. Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.
K.L. Toth
#7. I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
Charles Kennedy
#8. I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.
Catherine Asaro
#9. I won't discuss non-discussable things with her, like the sound of silence or the vertical dimensions of an awkward moment. Those sorts of things are best left unsaid, like the last time I told her I loved her.
Jarod Kintz
#10. I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
Kailash Satyarthi
#11. Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
#12. My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.
Tracy Lane
#13. Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters
#14. Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony De Mello
#15. Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices,
but because of the silence that is in it.
Karen Russell
#16. Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
Serge Schmemann
#17. Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death.
They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse.
There is silence.
Carolee Dean
#18. We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me with contentment.
Denise Grover Swank
#19. By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.
Philip Shepherd
#20. I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in
Matt Nathanson
#21. Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice.
"Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.
Abbi Glines
#22. Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible.
John O'Donohue
#23. Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.
Rami M. Shapiro
#24. There the black horse stood - his feet planted firm on the ground, afraid to move. His coat was covered in sweat and a stark white rim lined his eyes. All three of us gawked at his sudden silence. The rattling metal gate was now the only sound.
Brittney Joy
#25. One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.
Charles Dickens
#26. The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'
Adyashanti
#27. A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,
Bernie Krause
#29. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word.
Eckhart Tolle
#30. Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
Charlie Chaplin
#31. I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing ship, stranding me in the middle of a huge silence.
Sylvia Plath
#32. To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.
Steven Aitchison
#33. They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#34. Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
Robert Fripp
#35. From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing fountain, reveals the secret of life through word and gesture, color and sound. The
Hermann Hesse
#36. It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.
Bailey White
#37. Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
Jodi Picoult
#38. Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.
Bernie Krause
#39. Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
Terry Pratchett
#40. And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music
leaving tears on the glass,
which is what music does to me
most of the time
but silence too. and rain.
Charlotte Eriksson
#41. We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.
Ruth Haley Barton
#42. Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself.
Raymond E. Feist
#43. Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot
#44. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.
Michael Finkel
#45. I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard ...
William Alexander Percy
#46. The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.
Ken Kesey
#47. Mind can hear a song sung by heart
when no sound is heard by the ears.
Toba Beta
#48. What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
Marianne Williamson
#49. I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.
William Shatner
#51. 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
#52. After shutting off the phone to ignore the incessant ringing, I'm proud of myself. I hear nothing but silence. There is nothing torturing me. There is no sound to make me jump or panic. There is nothing but complete silence, well, Except In My Head, but whatever.
Sarah Ann Walker
#53. Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.
Pope Francis
#54. He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become and empty sound.
H.P. Lovecraft
#55. I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
Mike Love
#56. The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.
Gene Cernan
#57. Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
Robert Fripp
#58. Peace be with you,
when lights dance to the sound of Christmas bells -
and the whole world breathe in silence.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#59. Now there was nothing but awful, terrible silence. Sight is a sense outside and apart from the body, an image on the surface of the eye. But sound enters the ears, the head, it lives inside. In sound's absence, silence echoes.
Margaret Weis
#61. I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
Adriana Trigiani
#63. An eerie silence has descended over the house. Every few minutes, I hear a grunt and the scraping sound of a box dragging along the floor. Other than that, there's nothing. It's like the silence is the actual articulation of the emptiness we all feel.
Siobhan Davis
#64. For the rest of her life Rebecca Winter would apprehend the rumble of a truck engine in deep silence, or anything dimly like it, even the rhythmic solo roll of a kettledrum in a symphonic passage, as the soothing sound of salvation.
Anna Quindlen
#65. being the woman that i am will make a way out of no way..[these are the words of all women of color who assert who they are, who create sound out of silence, and who build worlds out of remnants. (282
D. Soyini Madison
#66. Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.
Kenneth Turan
#67. It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Herman Hesse
#68. Why, in his life of frequent travel, had he never recognized the beauty of flight? The improbability of it. The sound of the engines faded, the airplane receding into blue until it was folded into silence and became a far-distant dot in the sky.
Emily St. John Mandel
#69. The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.
David Foster Wallace
#70. Sometimes silence become the most excruciating sound; sometimes the mind becomes a musical symphony of clouded thoughts, questions and clarifications but the vocals fail to present the sound of conversation.
Sumrit Shahi
#71. 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
#72. There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all ... there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns ... not even silence, just an end.
Michael Shaara
#73. Because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.
Salman Rushdie
#74. Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.
Carl Jung
#75. Life is one kind of sound. Death is another kind of sound. Those who cannot hear the sound of death think death is silence. Death is not silence, it is just another kind of sound, but may not within the hearing range of a normal ear.
Jaggi Vasudev
#76. He couldn't stay there surrounded by a passel of slaves whose silence made him imagine an avalanche seen from a great distance. No sound, just the knowledge of a roar he could not hear.
Toni Morrison
#77. One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
Andre Kostelanetz
#78. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.
Franny Billingsley
#79. Children need to learn that silence is the home of spirit. All other voices speak out loud, but spirit communicates without making a sound.
Deepak Chopra
#80. There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.
Laini Taylor
#81. The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.
George R R Martin
#82. He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound.
This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.
Halldor Laxness
#83. Then, into the silence, over the top of everything, came a long, sad howl. For a second it felt like the sound had come from inside me. Like the world had taken everything I was feeling and turned it into a sound.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#84. The ocean tries to flood a boat, fire wants to eat the wood, the mind wills to regret, and silence shapes a landscape more deftly than sound - all of that was true.
Christopher Bollen
#85. There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
Mark Lawrence
#86. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
Helen Keller
#87. By the time I learned to say "Six-inch number seven on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of what the mind would label silence. You were now subsumed into the superorganism. The
Abraham Verghese
#88. A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.
Ayn Rand
#89. I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons
Christopher Poindexter
#90. There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.
Philip Caveney
#92. Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
Allie Burke
#93. 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
#94. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.
Rita Leganski
#95. The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while waiting to be stirred.
Rachel Cohn
#96. Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#97. I try whistling to fill in the silence. The soprano sax from Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," though of course my dubious whistling doesn't come anywhere near the complex, lightning-quick original. I just add bits so what I hear in my head approximates the sound. Better than nothing, I figure.
Haruki Murakami
#98. I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
Janet Frame
#99. That was the first sound in the song of love!
Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
The voice prophetic, and are not alone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#100. Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
Julius Lester
