“Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw. Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone. Impatience, in the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Knock, Knock!' [Puck] called in a high, singsong voice. For a moment, silence. Then came a thud and a crash, as if… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
We're all in this together. It's okay to be honest. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to say you're stuck,… — Jamie Tworkowski Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing… — Soren Narnia Copy Share Image
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to... continue to be happy… — Austin Rivers Copy Share Image
Tomorrow's a red flush in the western sky. Tomorrow's is a hush in the middle night. Tomorrow swears the truth of now,… — Iris Lopez Copy Share Image
“Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The third silence was not an easy thing to notice. If you listened for an hour, you might begin to feel it… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head.… — Burns Yeats Swift and Others Copy Share Image
“In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence. Not the fake silence you get when you plug your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Turn down the daily noise and at first there is the relief of silence. And then, very quietly, as quiet as light,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There is music in silence, and in silence one finds the truth. So if you seek the truth, spend time alone with… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Silence after all, comes in two very different forms. Sometimes, indeed, nobody is speaking; but on other occasions, people are unable or… — John Jenkins in The Lost History of Christianity Copy Share Image
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Silence is an intimate space where the boundaries between memory and reality dissolve. Let it be an invitation to introspection and to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those… — Jefferson Bethke Copy Share Image
To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Even the silences seemed infused with a secret knowledge. We held hands as we walked around the moon and it felt right… — Andersen Prunty Copy Share Image
So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image