Mitch Albom Quotes

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

People aren't hearing all the music.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.