“We sat there in silence. A masculine silence. Thick and strong. Oh, I'm full of shit. We were terrified and clueless.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.” — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. — Joë Bousquet Copy Share Image
Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Have I interrupted a conversation?' she asked. 'No, only a complete silence,' said Birkin. 'Oh,' said Ursula, vaguely, absent.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that… — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A minute's silence that's what I asking , a minute of your time would be nice. So that today you know my… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“I thought it would be quieter here.” [Anna] hadn’t meant to say anything, but the noise startled her. “The wind in the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“They’re so silent!” I said. “Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“We who live in the civilized world are accustomed to a background roar that never goes away. It is the pounding of… — Pirate Lanford Copy Share Image
“We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Let’s live suddenly without thinking. Let’s live like the light that kills. And let’s as silence, because Whirl’s after all: (after me)… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“ Silence is golden when it’s called for. Silence can be deadly when it’s not called for ” — Meryl Runion Copy Share Image
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Fear makes you silent when you need to be loud and loud when you need silence.” — Elizabeth Vaughan Copy Share Image
Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".” — Richard O. Moore Copy Share Image
“Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts. — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Dead silence is so much more foreign to me than people screaming at me, good or bad. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image