Best singing & silence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.”

Feels Song Silence Talking Lovers Mountain Singing Mere Oneself

Author:e. e. cummings

“Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.”

Healing Silence Four Singing Universal Dancing Storytelling

Book:Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.”

Way Heart Fall Voice Silence Streets Broken Singing Now And Then Thrill Adore Sweetness Cheerfulness Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.”

Age Song Space Secret Silence Singing Eternity I Have Learned Hymns Choir Chanting Choir Singing

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.”

Feels Doe Moments Force Sports Space Silence Meditation Singing Conscious Dancing Senses Peaceful Breathing Sunshine Energetic Great Ones Singing And Dancing

Author:Richard Brancatisano

“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.”

“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”

Stills Might Song Silence Weapons Singing Sirens

Book:The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.”

World Children Existence Silence Laughing Battle Singing Bird Noise Lions Monkeys Tigers Jungle Obscurity Maniacs Hyenas Ambient

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river.”

“there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness”

Eye Night Silence Laughing Growing Dying Cry Despair Singing Longing Timelessness

Author:e. e. cummings

“The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

Men Earth Water Animal Silence Air Sea Singing Bird Silent Fishes Noise Noisy

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.”

Source: A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.”

Song Silence Capable Singing

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.”

Soul Hard Inspiration Secret Silence Heard Listening Singing Tasks Ears Praise Addiction Hearing Invisible My Soul Revealing Hymns Choir Tumult Firmament Choir Singing

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.”

Looks Effort Silence Teach Singing Active Paradoxical Effortless Passivity

Author:Rajneesh

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'”

Ifs Persons Stories Asks Silence Four Sweet Singing Medicine Dancing Complaining Life Changing Territory Enchanted Disheartened

Author:Angeles Arrien

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