Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Has she spoken yet?" asked the suit. I AM speaking, idiot. You people can't hear.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today. — August Spies Copy Share Image
“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.” — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.” — Shakespear Copy Share Image
'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“some whine…some weep… other lit fire and sit on the edge of thoughts. some knows when to speak nothing. some knows the… — Zara Sagar Copy Share Image
“These days we have insulated ourselves from the sounds of other people and nature. From infancy we are training young children to… — John Durant Copy Share Image
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean'… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Silence is a powerful and magical tool capable of providing you most of the things you really need. Silence is not an… — Vishwanath Copy Share Image
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
