Silently Quotes
337 Silently quotes by 259 unique authors
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We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,'…
— James Salter
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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or…
— George Washington Carver
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Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
— Simone Weil
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
— William Blake
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I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I…
— Jodi Picoult
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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.
— Lilith Saintcrow
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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice…
— Hermann Hesse
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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit…
— Walt Whitman
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What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its…
— Theodor Adorno
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This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a…
— Melina Marchetta
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Warriors should suffer their pain silently.
— Erin Hunter
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come…
— Charlie Brooker
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Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my…
— Alexander Pushkin
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out…
— Douglas Coupland
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A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is…
— Henri Nouwen
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-' 'Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.' Despite the hundred…
— Ally Carter
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He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant…
— Rachel Caine
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LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my…
— William Blake
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Silently Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 337 Silently Quotes, led by these top contributors: