“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up… — Samuel Beckett 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
“She swallowed, watching as the servants and Harry and Bert trooped out of the room. Lad, apparently not the brightest dog in… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension,… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear! — Rumi Copy Share Image
Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the… — Julia Crane Copy Share Image
“Absolute silence greeted the mystery of death, and for a time impossible to measure they waited, motionless, while Lynn's spirit rose from… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Above humanity, where the airplanes fly and birds circle the thermals, silence stretches for eternity....” — Virginia Alison Copy Share Image
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“What have you done to it, Monkeyman? - he breathed. - Well, - said Arthur, - nothing in fact. It's just that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Do not talk any more. Do not speak. Do not break silence until We are weary of each other. Let our fingers… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“The air was still; when a breath awoke, it but touched his cheek like the down of a feather, and the stillness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“To deepen his meditation practice, Mr. Keledjian took a 10-day retreat of guided meditation in complete silence at the Southwest Vipassana Meditation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“O dear Himalaya...why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak...O dear Himalaya...” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
