“and you would know by now that silence is not distance — it is despair and distress and failure and weakness and… — Hanna Abi Akl Copy Share Image
You see that girl staring into space? If you were to ask what's wrong, she would say nothing, when in reality its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Everything becomes 100 times louder when you aren't trying to wake someone... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Enough gold to live like a lord, you said. What did you do with all that wealth?” Brown Ben laughed. “Fool boy… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.” — Ruth Emmie Lang Copy Share Image
Best said possibly the only thing that would have changed my attitude: 'What will happen to me?' 'Your friend MacLeod will look… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
“Oompf! That was the sound of me jamming my foot into my mouth. The silence drew out into long awkward moments. Leticia… — Jason Luke Copy Share Image
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush, rather than a last-minute rush. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“It was quiet, deeply so, but it was the kind of quiet that lived and moved and changed, filled to the brim… — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months,… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself. — Franklyn Ajaye 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
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Now they came, spectres in mourning, humbling themselves, ghosts, their eyes the only points of brightness. It was harrowing: a long cortege… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted… — Chris Witty Copy Share Image
Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone… — Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Copy Share Image
The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“My father and grandfather were noises now there are just silent and disappointed.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid Copy Share Image
My eyes are waiting for you, what this silence is saying, you betrayed me is my destiny. — Sushan Copy Share Image
You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“But sometimes that's what it takes, a culture of silence to foster a culture of winning.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Silence, because not everything can be expressed in words, Words, because silence needs company...” — Minhal Mehdi Copy Share Image
Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
