256 Quotes About Noise

Talking empties you of the noisy silence within.

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.

How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears - ears are a prey to every onslaught.

A man who does not appreciate silence must be sentenced to noise!

In the heated idleness of youth we were all rather inclined to quarrel with the implication of that proverb which says that a rolling stone gathers no moss. We were inclined to ask, "Who wants to gather moss, except silly old ladies?" But for all that we begin to perceive that the proverb is right. The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

When the crowd follows you, their noise can misguide you. When you follow the crowd, their direction may mislead you.

Healing from a toxic relationship, of any kind, is a choice everyday to not allow their words and actions to affect your own words and actions. This takes much patience on your part to rise above all of this clutter and noise. It is so much easier to react and so much harder not to. Toxic people crave your reaction, let them starve. It will certainly pay off in the end, with your sanity checked back in. Be patient with yourself.

The quirky nature of unidentified noise is that it usually ceases whenever one stops to listen.

Like a living body, no running building is without its small, unaccountable bumps and muffled clanks; yet even if they’re mostly benign noise, at night they’re magnified by the ever-present hush, and their unfamiliarity never fails to inflame the imagination of the sleepless newcomer.