Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Most people mistake calmness for acceptance, kindness for weakness, & silence for ignorance. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Never waste your words on those people in your life who only deserve your silence. — Brittany Copy Share Image
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I bathed myself in silence, wrapped warmly in the comfort of the quiet. Yes, the stillness accepts us as we are.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Why do Planned Parenthood and their allies only 'trust women' and only want to hear women's stories when they agree with Planned… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you open your eyes in the morning, sit for a moment and appreciate the gift of a new day, create a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
“As they passed, Duke nodded, and John Matthew, as he was called, did the same—and that was the extent of it. No… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which “was", no… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest.… — William Braithwaite Copy Share Image
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There has to be a Quietness…There is a Strength in Quietness.” — 1/18/2009 David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
It's funny how when I'm loud, people tell me to be quiet. But when I'm quiet, people ask me what's wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a girl's silence is not because she is mad. She may just giving you a chance to rethink about your mistakes. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech.” — Abba Pambo Copy Share Image
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image