Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
; How beautiful is it to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Girl how do you feel about heights, because we're about to get high tonight. — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A vow of silence (maun) taken for a worldly purpose is considered non-silence (amaun). Anything that is spoken for the purpose of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Silence is golden but if silence is wrapped under guilt it will be culminate into dissatisfaction,fear & pains of discomfort. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Love transcended loss long enough for them to find that the depth of feeling is best known in silence, because in the… — Rita Leganski Copy Share Image
“Silence is the echo of the eternal world. It is a place where God can come and speak and we can listen… — Sister Christine Marie of the Trinity Copy Share Image
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There were silences as murmurous as sound. There were pauses that seemed about to shatter and were only to be snatched back… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“They carried on a curious intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse suddenly nipped into silence… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Silence. Give me control. Give me calm. Give me restraint. Flash.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.” — Ruth Emmie Lang Copy Share Image
“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses. — Ryan Hemsworth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.” — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“What a silence when you are here. What a hellish silence. You sit and I sit. You lost and I lose. ” — Janos Pilinszky Copy Share Image
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. We should all learn just to be quiet at times. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
