Albert Camus Quotes
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.Albert Camus
Quotes to Explore
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Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford -
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Wayne Coyne -
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri
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The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler -
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis -
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
Valerie June -
I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
Anton Zaslavski -
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
Gay Talese
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
Edgar Allan Poe -
To restore silence is the role of objects.
Samuel Beckett -
And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. Housman -
Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
Annie Proulx -
It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.
Aldo Leopold -
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
A. Lee Martinez -
The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.
Sarah Dessen -
They just signed a new guy, so they are working to get better. As long as it is a priority ten it is all right.
Edgerrin James -
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
Donald Rumsfeld -
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.
Summer Altice -
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus