Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Can you hear the voice of the children? Softly pleading for silence in a shattered world? Angry guns preach a gospel full… — Prayer Of The Children Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
“I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, or for myself, because only… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Louis Bernacchi Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of… — M. Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
“The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car’s radio. Brian Jones’s sitar riff opened for Charlie… — Glenn Rolfe Copy Share Image
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You are at peace with your world when you don’t judge others. Learning to be non-judgmental is an art. And you learn… — AVIS Viswanathan Copy Share Image
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
“You know what else is adorable? When I can clearly see you having a furious discussion in your own head.” “That’s visible… — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important… — Margaret Shepherd Copy Share Image
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made… — Rumi Copy Share Image
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Crowds have one expression, cruel and fixed. You let yourself be trapped by a look. You let yourself be carried off and… — Marie Desplechin Copy Share Image
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel… — Gloria Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about,… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
“In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“166. God's silence can also be a reproach. We often pretend not to want to listen to this language. Conversely, if there… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
