And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Among the most ghastly sounds a man can hear is the sound of a voice in what he thought was an empty… — Matthew M. Bartlett Copy Share Image
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut. — J. Ogden Armour Copy Share Image
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“You can learn more in an hour of silence than you can in a year from books. —MATTHEW KELLY S” — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
“They walked along in silence, that silence just before parting where everything has been left unsaid and it is too late now… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
