“The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.” — Edith Hahn Beer a Copy Share Image
It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Silence had weight. And in that moment, it was heavier than both of them could carry.” — Janus Lucky Copy Share Image
“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the… — Thomas Kempis Copy Share Image
Silence has an important role in conversation. It's the only part when you have the chance to listen. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and… — Caroline Glick Copy Share Image
If a man is unfaithful, leave in silence. The man does not deserve to endure the purity of your voice, he is… — Myself (MissSarcasm Copy Share Image
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother… — Bono Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed. "I'd hate the dear old thing to be… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
“The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image