After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The silence before and the silence after, generally qualifies the sound inbetween. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
“As we drove into Harrow-gate, the atmosphere in the car was heavy with Miss Winter’s oppressive silence.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. — Mark Stevens Copy Share Image
Silence is my way of expressing my feelings through my eyes you should know just to read it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“...he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I am caged In solitude It haunted me Wont let me go If there is any other way. To heal the pain… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the… — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
“This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Did she just-" "Yes." "But I don't-" "Yes you do. We both stink." "Well, I'm not-" "Yes. You are." He huffed. "You… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so dark, void… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
