Noise Quotes

“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.”

“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”

“Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.”

“The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.”

“Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.”

“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”

“Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!”

“The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.”

“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”

“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.”

“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.”