Distress Quote by Zhu Xiao-Mei

“The experience of listening to an hour's music you barely know in a dead language you do not understand is a strange falling and…

— Zadie Smith

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

— Hector Berlioz

“I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage”

— Anonymous

“MUSIC expressed what cannot be said and on which it is IMPOSSEBLE TO BE SILENT.”

— Victor Hugo

“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could…

— Jake Vander Ark

“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture,…

— Milan Kundera

“There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say.…

— Gregory Maguire

“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was…

— Lisa Lewis

“Music is feelings in search of words.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily…

— Marguerite Yourcenar