Antiquity Quote by Luigi Russolo

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase…

— Anonymous

“Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact created...by music.…

— Juliet Nicolson

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

— Chuck Palahniuk

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

— Colum McCann

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the…

— Alan Moore

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 an environment in which great ideas are birthed.

— Anonymous

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees,…

— Wendell Berry