The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“People are always turning silence into a knife to stab themselves with.” — Laura Tims Copy Share Image
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
“To be heard today you need to be loud since silence is now imitation gold.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
If You can't understand someone's silence. You will have a hard time understanding their words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Only the deceased could hear this quietness, he thought; no wonder they were tossing and turning in their graves seven feet under… — Nina Copy Share Image
“And isn’t silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...” — Yôko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“In the seventh century, Isaac the Syrian wrote about 'stillness,' which in his writings has been summarized as 'a deliberate denial of… — Kenneth Bailey Copy Share Image
“Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self. If we give way to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“I would eat my soup in silence, but it’s alphabet soup. They’re all capital letters and they are shouting at me. I’m… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
“What we all have discovered together, only rarely in classrooms, is that the passage of years guarantees very little in the way… — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in… — Michael Molinos Copy Share Image
“Esperanza stared back at her in silence. The one thing she did understand was that she did not like Marta.” — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
“So much to say, but no words strong enough to clear the air between us.” — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Today, I have nothing which can say their! My pride has left me incapable of any screaming — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things. — David Shapiro Copy Share Image
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul. — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“she had made a conscious and counter-cultural choice to embrace silence and not fill it with noise” — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond. — Philippe Djian Copy Share Image
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism, — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“And the too much of my speaking: heaped up round the little crystal dressed in the style of your silence.” — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
