“Knowing and mastering the ability to stop yourself when you least want to, and letting silence speak instead of you, is the… — Aleksandar Sasha Trajkovski Copy Share Image
Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...” — Yôko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Both sit silent, listening to the metal voices, near and distant, resounding from towers of various heights, in tones more various than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sound is gone. There's nothing left but the insomniac throbbing of crickets. Crickets in the garden, the courtyard, the back courtyard.… — Rosario Castellanos Copy Share Image
People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What upset me the most was not the words from my enemies , but the silence from my friends. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
My little boy came into the world Quiet and peaceful no cries to be heard Waiting for the cry was like a… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means As are within my reach. You pierce… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear. I guess that’s why… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The silence isnt so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right… — Owl City Copy Share Image
