The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish there's someone to understand what's behind my silence. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The sound of silence, when you realize that you have no kids… ha ha ha... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“… for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But talking to fill the silence was how most people dealt with the kind of pressure that pervaded the room, a strain… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation.… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Pressed from all corners, you often things, If I could just have eight hours of quiet. You will have that someday, but… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“But this was like old movies, the silent theater haunted with black-and-white ghosts, silvery mouths opening to let moonlight smoke out, gestures… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
People often ask me why I continue to speak out if it's hurting my family. But that's exactly why I speak out.… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word "in-tuition" means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Silence is a mirror. So faithful, and yet so unexpected, is the relection it can throw back at men that they will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As long as we are among Humans, Let us be Humane With silence, as We Shout to the Universe we are here. — Morgan Copy Share Image
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Silence does not truly exist, it is a man made concept to explain something we do not understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If you listen, a person's silence will help you to understand in ways that words simply cannot. — Michael Loud Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
