Meditation Quote by Elton Trueblood

“He seemed not to know the uses of silence.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence…

— Henry James

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

“Turn down the daily noise and at first there is the relief of silence. And then, very quietly, as quiet as light, meaning returns.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Discomfort Many of us are uncomfortable with silence, so we compensate by filling that silence with words.”

— Bill McGowan

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty…

— Nicole Krauss

“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a…

— Alan Bradley

“Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.”

— Frank Herbert

“Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice