Ears Quote by Albert Camus

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

— Socrates

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is?…

— Adyashanti

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…

— Kenneth Turan

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

— Anonymous

Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both…

— Russell Sherman

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may…

— Jean Klein

I don't always need music, I can be with silence but not absolute silence. For example, I love the desert but there is always…

— Michele Lamy

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Moore

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be…

— George Parsons Lathrop

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

— Paul Brunton