“You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4 am. The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words. Those are the… — Anis Mogjani Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“Saying nothing, she went to the bed he had devised and lay down upon it stiffly, settling a hip carefully as she… — Jennifer Roberson Copy Share Image
On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“His heart beat slow, echoing in the ear he pressed against the pillow. Some nights, he would fall asleep listening to it,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wonder what brought us here? The analogy of our situation or the void we want to fill? Perhaps, our previous journey… — Kamil Alvi Copy Share Image
“Inaction is not the same thing as patience. It is instead a kind of perpetual waiting room, a sterile holding pen for… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“What’s been the most difficult aspect of living with us?” There was silence, but it was the kind where you can sense… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Death finally comes, usually in the evening, when something in the raconteur fades out for good and in the midst of his… — Zachary Mason Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“(...)'Of all the human body parts, the tongue is the most dangerous to one's soul and well being', to which quote, the… — Adriana Renescu Copy Share Image
“As I said, I don’t expect you to understand—” “And I don’t,” he cut in. “Ye ask how I can live a… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I loved silence, because there was so much of noise of friends, family and other people around… — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Silence is one of worst, most vocal enemies, yet people go through many bouts of depression not sharing what is happening. People… — Rachel Thompson Copy Share Image
“In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I came to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat. “Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out.” An enthusiastic howl… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
“wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
