I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night…

“SIR P: Sir, calumnies are answer'd best with silence.”

— Ben Jonson

“Unkind words live best in silence.”

— Paula Dickerson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

— Ben Jonson

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

— James F. Cooper

“every night, when he didn't want to be alone, or to age or die, with that set expression he assumed which she occasionally recognized…

— Albert Camus

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

— Marilu Henner

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

— Mark Rothko

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

— Wendell Phillips

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes…

— Philip Larkin

There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude…

— Richard J. Foster

“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and begin to…

— M. Ageyev

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Few of us can fully appreciate the terrible con­spiracy of noise there is about us, noise that denies us the silence and solitude we…

— Gordon MacDonald

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best…

— Grenville Kleiser