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1 " Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. "
― Desmond Tutu
2 " This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls. "
― Bryan Islip , Like an Angel Sings
3 " Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles. "
4 " Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard... "
― Simon Boylan
5 " You aren’t the thing that needs to change. It’s that you are overcome by your situation, by the way the world has descended on you. There is much in you that is young and new – and not just in you. In any person, even the oldest conceivable person. That’s what it means to be living – to engage with the cacophony of objects. "
― Jesse Ball , A Cure for Suicide
6 " The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself "
7 " What I really needed wasn't a dose of school spirit; it was a glass of water, an aspirin the size of my fist, and the answers to the history exam that I hadn't studied for the night before. " As long as I'm dreaming," I muttered, my words lost to the cacophony of the gym, " I'd also like a pony, a convertible, and a couple of fri "
8 " I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers. "
― Betsy Lerner , Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
9 " One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. There are so many different forms of dialogue: between several people, between two people, internal dialogue and dialogue through letters. All tensions are created and resolved through dialogue. Austen's ability to create such multivocality, such diverse voices and intonations in relation and in confrontation within a cohesive structure, is one of the best examples of the democratic aspect of the novel. In Austen's novels, there are spaces for oppositions that do not need to eliminate each other in order to exist. There is also space - not just space but a necessity - for self-reflection and self-criticism. Such reflection is the cause of change. We needed no message, no outright call for plurality, to prove our point. All we needed was to reach and appreciate the cacophony of voices to understand its democratic imperative. There was where Austen's danger lay. "
― Azar Nafisi , Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
