Air Quote by Criss Jami

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the…

— Thomas Merton

“Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: the nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment,…

— Christian McEwen

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

— Tara Brown

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Quiet people often have a weather sense that loud people lack. They feel the wind-changes of conversations, and shiver in the chill of unspoken…

— Frances Hardinge

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe…

— Thomas Gray

“Listening to the magnified sound of my own breath is peaceful and strangely euphoric. I'm being reassured with every breath that I'm more than…

— Nicola Yoon

There is real comfort in being quiet.

— Anonymous

When one is silent, those around speak even more.

— Melina Marchetta

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

— W. H. Auden

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

— Alice Walker