Bells Quote by James Shirley

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

— Anonymous

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the…

— Marcel Proust

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

— Philip Kapleau

“Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I…

— Joan Halifax

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never…

— George Eliot

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

— Thomas Moore

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

— Steven Millhauser

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man.…

— Edward Young

From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

— Socrates