The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The silence of the room was shattered with a wail of pain coming from deep within me.” — Hitomi Kanehara Copy Share Image
Whats more awkward, answering Dora, or sitting in silence while she stares at you? — Danish Copy Share Image
A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence. — Gopichand Lagadapati Copy Share Image
Take a moment to listen when your heart, soul and body speaks to you.. And ask the mind to be quiet for… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
God speaks in the silence of the heart Listening is the beginning of prayer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“They lay there like that, in a different kind of silence now, watching the lake and the stars, listening to the night,… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no!… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The character of the disillusioned warrior soothed by the simplicity and silence of nature is an archetype of this war-driven, industrialized era.… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I once asked you what anxiety felt like, and you told me that most days left you riddled with bullet holes. Every… — d.a.s Copy Share Image
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all.” Silence can be golden. Proverbs” — Matthew C. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence of everything. — Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
“Have the maturity to know sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word” — Thema Davis Copy Share Image
“What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The silence you may desire to be in. Some times it makes you heartless. Say something — Hellena Copy Share Image
Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
