Body Quote by Carl Sutton

“The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.”

— Parul Agrawal

“There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I’d never actually talked to a deaf person before but I’d been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt…

— Paul Neilan

“It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the…

— Peter Tieryas

“Apparently my inner self is mute.”

— Kim Harrington

“I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the…

— Rachel Sontag

“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without…

— Karen Armstrong

“Naked I felt as if my soul was exposed, my thoughts could be read. In the mask I felt protected. I eased the elastic…

— Chloe Thurlow

“When I was younger all kinds of people talked to me,” she said. “Told me all sorts of things. Fascinating stories, beautiful, strange stories.…

— Haruki Murakami

“Silence had its own sound; the steady, inaudible hum of consciousness, which made you realize how alone you really were in the universe.”

— Jack Kilborn

“The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often…

— Adrianne Brooks

“I was in way too deep. I was cut in so many places that I felt like I was bleeding out from every part…

— Alisa Mullen