“Some conversations may exhaust your intellect, but certain silences can shatter you emotionally.” — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was another silence, of the kind in which gray hairs seem to creep up on you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“The law of unintended consequences rules, often with deadly silence.” — Richard B. McKenzie Copy Share Image
The quieter your mind becomes, the better you can listen to your heart. Worry less, feel more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the… — Dave Dravecky Copy Share Image
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods…of the shore…of the meadows…of the night…of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
“MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.] MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.] MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Now they came, spectres in mourning, humbling themselves, ghosts, their eyes the only points of brightness. It was harrowing: a long cortege… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the… — George Sand 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
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The silence of the intelligent is better than the speech of the ignorant.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Ideas love silence. When you are silent, ideas come to knock on the door of your heart.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer. — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
The only thing I trust is silence. And I trust silence completely. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Silence can be a person's loudest cry you know you have really hurt someone when they start ignoring you — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image