William Shakespeare Quotes

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

If you like music you like silence actually.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Silence is best.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Quiet is better than loud.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Only silence perfects silence.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I really love peace and quiet.