But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky Copy Share Image
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The bed is filled with all the things we haven’t said to each other.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“I bathed myself in silence, wrapped warmly in the comfort of the quiet. Yes, the stillness accepts us as we are.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Never waste your words on those people in your life who only deserve your silence. — Brittany Copy Share Image
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“Against the tide of violence something spoken from the silence like an arrow parting air with the sharpened point of love.” — Don Hynes Copy Share Image
“We are completely isolated. We have heard nothing from Annemarie Kohler, nothing from Johannes Kohler for weeks…A frightening silence.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Tell me it's your pride, that you're really dying inside I turn around one last time And it's like a bullet to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
“I stood up. Can a man stand alone, naked, and at his ease, wrist flexed at his side like Michelangelo's David, without… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most people mistake calmness for acceptance, kindness for weakness, & silence for ignorance. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
It's funny how when I'm loud, people tell me to be quiet. But when I'm quiet, people ask me what's wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There has to be a Quietness…There is a Strength in Quietness.” — 1/18/2009 David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silence More than beauty more than anything A festival of understanding” — František Halas Copy Share Image
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know. — William Rose Benet Copy Share Image
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image