“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.” MenMindYoungPleasureLibertyTrainNotionNoiseYoung ManMistakenIdlenessRiotMischiefNamelessEnnui Book:Works Source: Works
“What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.” WorldLightEarthSpiritSimpleForgetPleasureMorningBloodRocksDemandSpringAncientDelightDenyGravesNoiseEveningTrafficFogFloweringMorning Light Author:Stephen Spender
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!” YearsHeartDesirePleasureGoneGreaterExampleSucceedMusicalBlowCrowdsNoiseGenerousInternalsEnginesOrgansRealismDistributionAutomobileViolinSlapCombiningWagnerRehearsingRestrainingGroaningCombustionSatedUst Author:Luigi Russolo
“we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away” IfsMadeWarWalksPleasureRoomsHeardBackgroundsNoiseLiving Room Author:Conor Oberst
“I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.” WayChildrenHousePleasureChaosBusyNoiseOur FutureSatisfyingYour Future Author:Jane Smiley
“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.” WorldMindMayStatesHappinessFreedomPleasureMeditationConceptsContraryPursuitNoiseBlissFormulasState Of MindBrutalitySearching For HappinessUninvited Book:Freedom, Love, and Action Source: Freedom, Love, and Action
“Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.” GivingLightPainPleasureVisionToo MuchArgumentDistanceExtremesSensesNoiseAnnoyingBrevityDazzle Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal