Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
“Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there. "The ride's over," someone said. "End of the ride." For a moment… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured” — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
“ 'Nothing can make death easier,' Cala said, 'but silence can make it harder.' 'Speaking helps not,' Maia said.” — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the… — Gabriel Josipovici Copy Share Image
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence. — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
“I motion yes with my head. “I’m gay, Kendall.” And then there is silence—a very deep, impenetrable stillness. I want to curl… — Zimmer, Kristen Copy Share Image
“[…] and the barred owl calls from the well of my mind, more echo than thought, as it fades through the wind… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories - harrowing stories that reduced many of… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Learn to listen to this silence, because it will tell you many things, unimaginable things, things of great beauty and meaning.” — Michael Paterniti Copy Share Image
Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need… — Armin Wiebe Copy Share Image
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. I prefer a kind… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate." "In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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