Birth Quote by Jack Kerouac

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of…

— Edward Hoagland

The silence was an intense roar.

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Socrates

The sound of silence is so loud.

— Sonny Long

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it…

— Alice Hoffman

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

— Anonymous

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

— Paul Brunton

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

The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even…

— Hal Borland

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

— Thomas Moore