“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.” — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Be classy, if you must say anything at all. I think silence is very classy.” — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with himself. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
Your silence hurts me more than your words, but your ignorance hurts me more than your intentions ever can. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured” — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we… — Matthew Flaming Copy Share Image
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“For several seconds, they stand there, ...just four feet apart now, but separated by a thick granite counter, by fifty years and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I feel this because I feel nothing. I think this because this is nothing. Nothing, nothing, part of the night and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
