Noise Sensitivity Quotes

Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.

I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.

Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But while I'm doing vocal in a studio, I can't stand it.

I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.

I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.

I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

People say it's a quiet flow, that it sounds like I'm in a library. That could have come from when I was living in my old place, a nice loft. I was the youngest person in the building, and I would be working alone on my music. I would get emails two or three times a month about 'loud' music, so I became quieter and quieter about making beats.

I just got a new dog, so I was worried that he'd hate the fireworks, and he did, but just because he's not a patriot, not because of the loud sounds. The loud sounds he's fine with - he just hates America.