You know what’s the loudest noise in the world? The loudest noise in the world is silence.
Noise Quotes
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Our own age is not likely to be distinguished in history for the large numbers of people who insisted on finding the time to think. Plainly, this is not the Age of Meditative Man… Substitutes for repose are a billion dollar business. Almost daily, new antidotes for contemplation spring into being and leap out from […]
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
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 […]
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Noise, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.
