“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end. “Yeah? Did you see what… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Missing someone is hard, but having them standing next to you and not being able to find the words to tell them… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
“A hush is a dangerous thing. Silence is solid and dependable, but a hush is expectant, like a pregnant pause; it invites… — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
“No one can claim to have produced any work without [the Muses'] help: the very fact that it exists proves they smiled… — Natalie Haynes Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“And lying there, amid the tall, still grass and beneath the star-drunk sky, listening to the just-this-side-of-inaudible sound of her rhythmic breathing… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and… — M. Ageyev Copy Share Image
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
Never Win Someone with argument but defeat them with Ur Silence. Bcoz people who always want to argue with YOU, can't bear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“Those first seconds of silence echo with all the memories we've shared, all the memories we should've gone on to experience together.” — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“Silence after all, comes in two very different forms. Sometimes, indeed, nobody is speaking; but on other occasions, people are unable or… — John Jenkins in The Lost History of Christianity Copy Share Image
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Silence does not mean remaining silent both in speech and on paper. You can keep your mouth shut while communicating thousands of… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We must remind people that there is no typical or predictable person suffering from addiction, and that their pain must be met… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
“Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image