“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
Having a miscarriage would hurt if I went through it in silence and it would hurt if I lose the pregnancy in… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
I was not brave enough to tell my feelings to her but now she made me brave enough to watch her loving… — Alexia Copy Share Image
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Silence is the ocean in which all the rivers of all the religions discharge themselves.” — Thayumanavar Copy Share Image
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
SILENCE: A State Where Almost NO SOUND Is Made. The Thoughts You Always Want To AVOID Are HEARD in The Silence. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. — Euripides Copy Share Image
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A… — Andre Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't consider my silence as your victory, you never know what price you are going to pay for it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence. — Michael Card Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“...having nothing better to do, meandered off to a coffee shop and sat facing each other for a couple of hours, neither… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
I'd tell you I miss you, but I don't know how. I've never heard silence quite this loud. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“He says, this silence of More's, it was never really silence, was it? It was loud with his treason; it was quibbling… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish! — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
“During a moment of silence I close my eyes tight and let the birds take me. When I opened my eyes I… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“My hush is lush. It’s drunk on its own greenness, just as I’m drunk on my blue silence. What would you say… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image