“Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. — Hugh Allen Copy Share Image
Silence between two strangers creates a relation ...But silence between two known people breaks the relation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is gold because the words are at the origin of many misfortunes but speech is silver to calm certain pains — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
“Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a ‘brave girl’ for not crying, a ‘good girl’ for not complaining,… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams. And the silence deafens me.” — Scott Hildreth Copy Share Image
My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung… — Ashley Cole Copy Share Image
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better,… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I stand quietly on the beach. My silence shields me from faraway waves that smell of sunken ships. My silence shelters me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
