Sounds Of Silence Quotes

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

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Silence, Words Of Wisdom

  Song: The Sound Of Silence

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• No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

  Paul Simon

  Silence, Listening, Sound

  "Song: The Sounds of Silence (Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.)". October 1964.

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Silence is more musical than any song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Music, Song, Silence

  "Rest" l. 10 (1862)

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

  Paul Simon

  Talking, People, Thought Provoking

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

  Roderick L. Evans

  Silence, Sound

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• 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

  Silence, Sound, Attention

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  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life Changing, Epic, Power

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• Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Should Have, Listening, Sound

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• 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

  Believe, Eye, Silence

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 14, 2015

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• I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

  Chaim Potok

  Silence, Quality, Dimensions

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Should Have, Wind

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• 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

  Spiritual, Silence, Sound

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• And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Blow, Silence, Sound

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• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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  Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Communication, Silence

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• We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Nature, Wind

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• As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

  Sally Brampton

  People, Silence, House

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• 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

  Hate, Mean, Track

  "Charles Kennedy" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2005.

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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