The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“SILENT, SHE WAITS FOR the sky to fall, standing upon an island of volcanic rock amidst a black sea. The long moonless… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“They were all watching me with open concern and curiosity; the only sound breaking the silence was Sandra munching on potato chips.… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Instead of acting like you know everything, shut up and listen to what others have to say. I can guarantee that you… — Chris Guzman Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
“and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“-you must Be the thing you see: You must enter in to the small silences between the leaves, take your time and… — John Moffitt Copy Share Image
“Silence is good smetimes. That's when you're able to heart best" -Ruby "Hear what" - Virgil "Your thoughts" "That's the problem. People… — Erin Entrada Kelly Copy Share Image
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and… — Caroline Glick Copy Share Image
If a man is unfaithful, leave in silence. The man does not deserve to endure the purity of your voice, he is… — Myself (MissSarcasm Copy Share Image
The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people… you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
“It would be the most peaceful to love in silence, but there are consciousness and personality, so we have to speak. And… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“She breaks the silence with a breathy, "Oh my God" Yeah. No shit. Because I’m about to blow, and all I’ve done… — Angela Quarles Copy Share Image
If there is any other way.To break the cycle and change that part.Reverse the pages, chapter and stories. Ill let you barrow… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image