Silence Quote by Burns Yeats Swift and Others

“These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And…

— William Shakespeare

“They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.”

— Ray Bradbury

“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into…

— R. W. Patterson

“I lay wakeful, watching the empty dark, listening to the little wind which had sprung up throwing handfuls of rain against the walls of…

— Mary Stewart

“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue,…

— Ray Bradbury

“For a moment the highlander lay quietly and studied the room in silent leisure, allowing the sleep to disperse and his rested mind to…

— Terry Brooks

“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though…

— Virginia Woolf

“I could spend the rest of my life like this: with him, at night, in Rome, my eyes totally shut, one leg coiled around…

— André Aciman

“My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air.”

— Sylvia Plath

“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl to its…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and…

— Jeanette Winterson