I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“The wall of silence that exists between us is as long as the Great Wall of China. And though it’s the same… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important… — Margaret Shepherd Copy Share Image
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Crowds have one expression, cruel and fixed. You let yourself be trapped by a look. You let yourself be carried off and… — Marie Desplechin Copy Share Image
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
