“Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.” SelfEarthHeavenSilenceCreationBirthEternity Book:The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!” MenHeartMayEarthFacesFightingNamesStrongCausesChallengesSilenceFateInspireBirthBattleDrawsDevilRainStonesCastsBlowMysteriousTheeShakesDaringBowsDreadWoeCalamityUnbrokenAvalanchesGauntlet Author:Leonid Andreyev
“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.” IfsGovernmentEyeKidsAsksBitsSilenceWatchesBirthBlameConcertsYellowManufacturingSpongesCondomSpongebob Squarepants Author:Thom Yorke
“Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.” WorldSpiritualitySoundSilenceBirthImpactAncientRhythmRadicalTimelessEmbeddedBorrowingWorld Music Author:Rami M. Shapiro
“Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.” MomentsActionSleepSilenceMorningAdventureBirthDegreesPerceptionAbsolutesObligationClarityBurningDawnSpursMindlessMost AmazingGood MorningHecticLack Of Sleep Author:Vera Nazarian
“The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.” SilenceBloodBirthEarsStressForgottenIntenseMysteriousDiamondSilence IsRemindingRoaring Book:The Dharma Bums Source: The Dharma Bums