“Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Sometimes silence is the best response...Shhh, can you hear that?...Golden…” — Lenita Vangellis Copy Share Image
“songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.” — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“Thought moves with the different whereas silence lives inside those with the loudest voice” — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
“Shall I take back everything I've ever said And live my whole life in silence instead?” — Barenaked Ladies Copy Share Image
“There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.” — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
“We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around… — Marisa Calin Copy Share Image
Hold me in my silence please don't let me go. Wrap me in your protection safe inside I know. Stroke my mind… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and… — Dana Hill Copy Share Image
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This was all chemistry ever was: two people's silent selves invisibly aligning while their noisy selves carried on, oblivious.” — Alethea Black Copy Share Image
An act goes much farther than a word will ever travel. Even when someone is silent, in different situations this silence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest;… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.” — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise? — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“My silence is golden and can never be misquoted." ~Elissa Gabrielle” — Elissa Gabrielle Copy Share Image
“They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language... — John Geddes Copy Share Image
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
![“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6a/richard-rohr-618_deeper_if-i-m-going-to-continue-to-be-any-kind_270254.png)
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