“Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. --from "Crossing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Going at it alone had been my badge of honor. How foolish. I confused silence with strength.... Shutting out others is weak… — Richard M. Cohen Copy Share Image
Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can't… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Well, Ma, see... there's this girl." Silence. He checked to make sure the call hadn't been dropped. "You still there, Ma?" A… — Julie James Copy Share Image
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of… — Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
“Through silence, we return to our heavenly origin, where there is nothing but calm, peace, repose, silent contemplation, and adoration of the… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin;… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I wish I had no fear. Then I could wear anything I want, jump onto a moving train, and climb a tree… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet… — Karen Chance 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
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
