Quotes about noise

Jocelyn Murray -

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Kaoutar Chahbane -

Noise in the form of words' that’s what life is about.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

when words make noise, silence can talk.

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't

Ellen G. White -

At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.

Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

John Clare - Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where the flower in green darkness buds, blossoms, and fades, Unseen of all shepherds and flower-loving maids— The hermit bees find them but once and away. There I'll bury alive and in silence decay.

Shannon L. Alder -

Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune.

Farshad Asl -

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

Arthur Schopenhauer -

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.

Robert Sarah - The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities that are at the bottom of our soul. Hence, man enters a mentality that resembles a denial of reality. He gets drunk on all sorts of noises so as to forget who he is. Postmodern man seeks to anesthetize his own atheism.

Robert Sarah - The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred upon each other. "Old Scratch" always makes noise and a lot of racket so as to prevent us from resting in God. The devil will not be able to reach us in the stronghold of silence. Let us guard against multiplying sins by satisfying our little egotistical or revolutionary passions.

Bridget Asher - The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!

Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why

If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in you head.

Rachel Cinelli -

Imagine you are tied to a chair with your hands tightly bound behind you, preventing you from covering your ears. Before you is a giant chalkboard. A woman enters the room. Her fingernails are long, hard, and ready for attack. You follow her with your eyes as she saunters to the chalkboard and raises her hand to make a claw. She looks at you with a blank stare as she digs her fingernails into the chalkboard and drags downward. As the harsh sound hits your ears, you squeeze your eyes shut in an i

Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set t

Luke Taylor - Shatterpoint Alpha

The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.

Dominic Riccitello -

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much more than I know.

Francine Prose - Goldengrove

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

K.C. Cole -

One person's data is another person's noise.

Melissa Etheridge -

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

Rebecca McNutt - Smog City

She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin’ the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. “What are you thinking about?” Mandy questioned.“Wouldn’t the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?” Alecto asked quietly.

Terry Pratchett - Soul Music

A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that containe

Blaise Cendrars - Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques de Blaise Cendrars: Edition critique et commentée

ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypesThe sketcher washes with the hand-towel of the skyAll is color spotsAnd the hats of the women passing by are comets in the conflagration of the eveningUnity There's no more unityAll the clocks now read midnight after being set back ten minutesThere's no more time.There's no more money.In the ChamberThe

Jack Gilbert - Collected Poems

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Pavitraa Parthasarathy -

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

Phen Weston -

Today words curve around my vision,Stumbling from my parched coreTo soak again those strands of silence.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise... and actions are the ONLY things that speak.

Dejan Stojanovic -

When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.

Keary Taylor - What I Didn't Say

I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a gut-wrenching howl rip from my disfigured throat toward those clouded skies. I wanted to say every swear word my mother had ever taught me not to say.I would have settled for a cut-off whimper, just as long as some kind of sound came from my lips.

Cees Nooteboom - Rituals

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — "were hatching and proclaiming their ideas? Anyone who now tries to follow these ideas in order to find the road back to what they were talking about, is faced with obstacles that would have driven an entire tribe of oriental ascetics into the ravine. The world from which they felt it so necessary to retreat would

Charlotte Eriksson -

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

James Oswald - Natural Causes

Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.

Daphne du Maurier - The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

Natsuki Takaya - Vol. 10

OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!"*smack*J-just now, that made a really loud noise.."Do you wanna hear it again?"N-no, you'll just hit me again!"Kyo and Tohru

Patricia Highsmith -

I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.

Ashlecka Aumrivani -

Talking empties you of the noisy silence within.

Michael Bassey Johnson - Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

Lena Dunham - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live on Broadway, where the noise is so thick your scary thoughts can't get a word in edgewise. But here in the county, there is only space. On the stone bridge by the stream. On the mossy rock at the edge of the yard. Behind the abandoned trailer where Art, the old man with the glass eye, used to live. Space, space, space, and you can scare yourself into thinkin

Erin Entrada Kelly - Universe

People don't want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - Tomorrow's Eve

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Claire North - The Sudden Appearance of Hope

The press, the media, the internet—they'll make the noise, make the screaming, the screaming all the time, and the truth and my voice will be lost. The blaming and the noise, human things, they'll make it about human things, not the truth. How can anyone live with it? How can anyone live with so much screaming in their lives, all the time?

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise.

Ken Craft - The Indifferent World

Drinking people are loud people. This is loston children, who make monkey bars of noise,climbing through and over its steel pipesuntil they king the metal smell of mountain.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

A day is too precious a treasure to forfeit.

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about quiet?" "We like it," said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.

Nathaniel Macon -

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Manifestation blossoms when we turn down or tune out doubtful noise.

Herbert M. Shelton - Rubies in the Sand

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.

Rachel Van Dyken - Toxic

Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.

Christina Engela - Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You

Some girls feel they are like boys, They play rough, they like a lot of noise.

Meg Cabot - The Boy Next Door

Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

TemitOpe Ibrahim -

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

Ziad K. Abdelnour - Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Robert Fripp -

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Bill Cosby - Fatherhood

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

Anton Szandor LaVey - The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

Music is a complete evocation – like a smell. It can bring an entire memory and feeling back to you in a rush. Much more complete than even a photograph. You allow yourself a certain visual distance with photos – not music. It envelopes you – there’s no way to escape it. It’s a great test of sensitivity – the degree of reaction to music. I use it all the time. I call it my ‘Music Test.’ People today don’t want to hear the truth. They’re really afraid of tranquility and silence – they’re afraid t

Jean Arp -

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

Martin Pond - Turn Around Where Possible

Jo's whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn't materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.

Arthur C. Clarke -

Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon.

Holly A. Smith - Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest

I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and I am about to fry my circuits. Nothing is coming in,and nothing is going out. I feel electrified. The wires ignited, sparked, and fizzled. I want it all to slow down. I go right to the water to douse my flame. I immerse myself in the hot water. I want to wash the smells off my body. I can smell Isabella's hair, her breath, and her child vaginal scent. My hair smells of smoke,

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound.

Sara Sheridan - Brighton Belle

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

Shon Hyneman Love And Football How to play on the same team with your spouse -

Is there a communication breakdown in your marriage because of the "crowd noise" i.e.. too many people in your life you are taking advice from? Who is in your ear that isn’t a part of the team on and off the field? That’s the noise you drown out.

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.

Marty Rubin -

The hammer never complains of the noise.

Duop Chak Wuol -

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

Sergio de la Pava - A Naked Singularity

The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and other pleasures to be enjoyed to the fullest, a certain contemplative quality to life must be present. If you doubt this imagine yourself for a moment having sex. Now imagine you wished to increase the pleasure you were feeling, feel it more intensely. What might you do? Well one of the things

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Michael Finkel - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; tha

Saul Bellow - 1984-2000

The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

Glee -

You know something, it’s not easy to break out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you you shouldn’t have bothered in the first place. But let me tell you something, there’s not much of a difference between a stadium full with cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you. They’re both just making a lot of noise. How you take it is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that, and someday, they will.

Aleister Crowley - Magick Without Tears

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement." The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gi

Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

Christina Engela - Blachart

Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling his pet dog lying on his lap. The wickerwork garden chair creaked pleasantly under him and some native Earth birds made pleasant sounds above while the cool wind wafted over him as he lazily …

Elisabeth Elliot - Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Tana French - In the Woods

...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange pool of city glow coming through the window, smelling heady curry spices spiraling across the corridor and listening to two guys outside yelling at each other in Russian and someone practicing stormy flamboyant violin somewhere, and slowly realizing that there was not a single person in the world who could see me or ask me what I was doing or tell me to do anything else,

John Clare - 1837-1864: Volumes I and II

O take me from the busy crowd,I cannot bear the noise!For Nature's voice is never loud;I seek for quiet joys.The book I love is everywhere,And not in idle words;The book I love is known to all,And better lore affords.

John Clare - Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.

H. Beam Piper - Fuzzies and Other People

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Debra Anastasia - Saving Poughkeepsie

He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.

Eric Samuel Timm - Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.

Bernard Kelvin Clive -

The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.

James W. Blinn - The Aardvark Is Ready For War

That's what they tell you noise is, random energy, chaotic energy . . . It's the stuff that's not data, that's not information, that's not REAL. A thing that's what it's NOT and not what it IS. Noise is chaos. But chaos is continuity. . . . There are stories in the noise.