When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence,… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.” — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
“And then, after five minutes of silence, almost inaudibly, the old man sighed and said, more to himself than to Artyom: ‘Lord,… — Dmitry Glukhovsky Copy Share Image
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Now, what do you own the world? How do you own disorder, disorder, Now somewhere between the sacred silence. Sacred silence and… — System Of A Down Copy Share Image
Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“When the little man threw me to the deck, the fall bruised the back of my head. When he ripped my shirt… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence,… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. --from "Crossing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“They sat quietly, shoulder to shoulder, listening to the sound of nothing. Nothing can sound very loud sometimes, louder than noise, even… — Savita Kalhan Copy Share Image
“For a heartbeat, the silence peeled back long enough for that question to worm its way into her skull, into her skin,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it. I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We moved in silence for a moment and I said, “How did we screw this all up so badly, John?” He shook… — David Wong Copy Share Image
What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit,… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
