Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel Copy Share Image
“How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Its a sea of unsaid words that separate so many. They're sadly standing upon the shore waiting for the tide to change.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Does a lack of life always equate to death? Perhaps it’s sometimes worse than that. For us, back then, it was. We… — Sima B. Moussavian Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
