“Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...” — Nettie Magnan Copy Share Image
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Silence is a virgin mountain Rarely visited by humans, For it’s impossible to Discover the paths Leading to its peak- And a… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...] — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“In the empty silence that follows failure, betrayal, or disappointment, do not dwell on what was lost or taken. Look for what… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“No Surprises A heart that’s full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal. You look… — Radiohead Copy Share Image
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image