Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I need silence; sometimes I need voices around - but not too loud or distinctive. I guess it depends on the… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
The fruit of silence is PRAYER. The fruit of prayer is FAITH. The fruit of faith is LOVE. The fruit of love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is… — Arvo Part Copy Share Image
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins 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
I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence. — Bayazid Bastami Copy Share Image
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“You want to shut me up with your illegal none disclosure agreement?” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Silence does not mean remaining silent both in speech and on paper. You can keep your mouth shut while communicating thousands of… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“A note exists between two notes of music, between two facts exists a fact, between two grains of sand no matter how… — Clarice Lispector 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
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“I ache for silence - to step back into that stillness which birthed us all. To dissolve into No-thingness and discover what… — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
