Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“When the tongue fails to convey what the heart has in store; Silence, becomes the language of love.” — Suhaib Rumi Copy Share Image
As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“Nothing is as beautiful as silence that has a reason behind it. At the same time, nothing is as stupid as shutting… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Do not mistake silence for acceptance. Just because I don't confront your lies doesn't mean I'm stupid & naive. You are just… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“When everything’s going alright, best thing you can do is sit back and enjoy it till things turn to shit, which they… — Peter Newman Copy Share Image
“Not a spoon clinked against a mug, not a creamer was popped, peeled and opened, not a breath. It was as though… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront.… — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
“The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, the departmental shrink. And in the silence that followed, he knew everyone was waiting for him to groan, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“APOSIOPESIS (APOSIOPE'SIS) n.s.[ from after, and rixp to be silent.] A form of speech, by which the speaker, through some affection, as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can… — Gandhi Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly. — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“Down in this hell, silence was more than golden; it was the difference between life and death.” — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In silence, I can hear your voice. In your absence, I can see your magnificence.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“When one has an urge to say something but wouldn't quite know 'what' & 'how' .. it is better to let it remain unsaid.” — Neena Verma Copy Share Image
He who does not understand your silence will never understand your words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.” — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words — Greek Proverb Copy Share Image
“Flowers bloom in secret. Animals build in silence. Humans crave attention.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence. — Michael Card Copy Share Image
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