Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again. — Umar Copy Share Image
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege. — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don’t notice.” — Robert Dunbar Copy Share Image
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Shortly after you have awakened, go into your sanctuary of silence. Get still and focused. Then ask yourself this question: ‘What would… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence.… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“No one says anything, and the silence gets uncomfortably awkward very quickly. I feel like I am the third wheel, which is… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
“Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular… — Martin Page Copy Share Image
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“... listening to the silence together. If there’s any. I truly believe not so. I have never heard a silence. Have you?… — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
“Any clear thing that blinds us with surprise, your wandering silences and bright trouvailles, dolphin let loose to catch the flashing fish...… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“I stood up. Can a man stand alone, naked, and at his ease, wrist flexed at his side like Michelangelo's David, without… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
