“Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“No Surprises A heart that’s full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal. You look… — Radiohead Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And then the two-second gaps started. If you don't understand how tragic and annoying this is, seriously, start singing along to "Sun… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We need to put pressure on Trump, to speak out very forcefully that he's the president of all Americans including Muslims, and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“If silence were your only friend, know that the universe understands you. If solitude is your only company, know that loneliness has… — Amarjyoti Acharya Copy Share Image
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“For language to have meaning there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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“It does not matter what it is; it matters how much there is of it; that all around the oases of your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there's almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A silence settled over the city, a silence that spoke of twenty thousand equally sad goodbyes: lover to lover, mother to son,… — Peter Flannery Copy Share Image
“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. .… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Silence cleared her throat, fearful her voice would come out a croak. “Is she asleep?” He blinked as if he, too, were… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“But this is not eternity, it is condemnation. How opulent this silence is. It is the accumulation of centuries. It is the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The spirit world is able to get through to you easily when your mind is still and clear. Meditation is often referred… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You’ve been silent your whole life. You were silent when we met, silent when you suffered. Silent when life kept hitting you.… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
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