Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
“Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.”
Tacitae per amica silentia lunae.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 255 (tr. Fairclough)
“What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”
Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio.
Voces (1943)
“Some say silence is golden, I choose noise.”
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“He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence […]”
Pordenone http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29993/29993-h/29993-h.htm, IV (1886)
Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 14, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/antenicenechris05donagoog/page/n314.
