“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot. — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
People who are silent use their brains while people who are noisy use their mouth without thinking! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Try to record your own silence. Listen to it when you are alone, but be careful! You could go insane because of… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there,… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
“They can’t shit on us,” said Alex. “That’s really what I’m saying. You can’t shit on us anymore.” There was a silence.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
“Silence explains a lot of things. It tells us why people are who they not supposed to be. It's the fear of… — Tessa Vanluchene Copy Share Image
I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead.… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
