“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”

—  Colum McCann, book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise." by Colum McCann?
Colum McCann photo
Colum McCann71
Irish writer and journalist 1965

Related quotes

Isabel Allende photo

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

Isabel Allende book Paula

Source: Paula

James Branch Cabell photo

“It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.”

James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author

"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)
Context: It spurred me to such action as I took, — but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.

Matka Tereza photo

“Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. ”

Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin

David Foster Wallace photo

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

David Foster Wallace book Girl with Curious Hair

Source: Girl with Curious Hair

Douglas Adams photo

“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie photo

“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Luigi Russolo photo

“In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of machinery. Today noise reigns supreme over human sensibility.”

Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter

Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 4

Sylvia Plath photo

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio.
Voces (1943)

Blake Lewis photo

“Some say silence is golden, I choose noise.”

Blake Lewis (1981) American musician

[Blake Lewis' profile, http://myspace.com/blakelewis, 2007-06-04, MySpace]
["What Are You Doing This Weekend?: Bshorty Farewell Party with KJ Sawka + Ra Scion + Joe Doria", http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/blogs/reverb/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend/, 2007-06-04, January 26, 2007, Seattle Weekly, Aja Pecknold]
On music

Related topics