Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“I pray for the gift of silence, Of emptiness and solitude, Where everything I touch is turned into prayer:” — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of… — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is… — Arvo Part Copy Share Image
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I noticed that in Tokyo people didn’t smell. It was funny. I couldn’t smell them, and they didn’t say very much: the… — Mo Hayder Copy Share Image
Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Now there was nothing but awful, terrible silence. Sight is a sense outside and apart from the body, an image on the… — Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have often said that domestic violence is characterised by silence: of the abused, of the abuser and of those who don't… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I'm such a fan of the show.… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“ 'Nothing can make death easier,' Cala said, 'but silence can make it harder.' 'Speaking helps not,' Maia said.” — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Can we please hold hands and have a moment of silence for the snuggie. — Chanel Dudley Copy Share Image
“There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha” — Abhishek Kumar Copy Share Image
The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Because you brand our tongues with silence. Because you watch us in fear, even while we sing.” — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
“The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
