“silence falls. i open my eyes and ready myself to move, glancing down at me feet bridging the toilet bowl. it's gross… — Kirsty McKay Copy Share Image
The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grave What do you think of my new glasses I asked as I stood under a shade tree before the joined grave… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
“Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed. "I'd hate the dear old thing to be… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today. The new man will have to find… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“I Ask for Silence" Now they can leave me in peace. Now they grow used to my absence. I am going to… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I just -- I know my own heart and I love you, Turner. And if you have even the tiniest shred of… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“- I won't be able to think. I won't be able to work. - Nothing will interfere with your work like suicide.… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
“Silence. Silence! And in silence ponder the similitudes between cannons and mouths. The simpleton beholds a cannon and phant'sies it an infallible… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There was silence. At last she said, „Lazarus, I don’t want to die. But what is the purpose of our long lives?… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“I miss the snow. I miss looking at it, walking in it, tasting it. I used to love those days when it… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
“A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story,… — Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar Copy Share Image
“People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
