After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Quote of the Week 42

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

 

 

 

 

As cited in Kierkegaard on the Spiritual and Sensual Power of Music, the Essence of Genius, and the Key to a Timeless Work of Art.

 

 

See Great Writers on the Power of Music for more quotes on music. 

 

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

― Victor Hugo

 

 

“Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts — it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure — and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.”

― Susan Sontag

 

“Without music life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche